La Boissonnie : Failed musical outing

Peter and I had many wonderful, successful outings. We were jinxed, though, on a couple of musical outings. We tried to go to an organ concert at the cathedral in Limoges. We got there, sat in the audience with many other people, and it didn't happen. No signs. No announcement. Just cancelled.
Then we decided to go see a fully staged opera put on by the group we saw sing at the chateau in Châlus. In was being staged in the chateau in Excideuil, which is an hour + from us.
We decided to make a day of it and explore some.
We went to St Yrieix la Perche (lovely cathedral in a nice medieval section of town). Peter was pretty excited about the organ (famous requiem performed there directed by the composer), then onto see the castle in Coussac-Bonneval. The tour of the chateau was super, even learned a new word 'douariaire' (that our chorus group was fighting over- some of the French members thought it didn't exist and'or was a typo).
Then we went on to Excideuil for dinner and the opera. About 5 miles out, we started seeing houses with tarps on them, every 2nd or 3rd house. Then more & more. Even in the town. We went up to the chateau and there was tape across the entrance. Even the tourist bureau was tarped (completely wrapped in plastic!)
We had had a big storm the previous week and this area was hit by a major hail storm, the roof of the chateau was destroyed along with hundreds of buildings in a 5 mile radius. Crazy.
Maybe next year. The town was beautiful and the chateau looked glorious!