The French Riviera is recovering from a stormy, with heavy rain and fierce winds in the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes on Friday. Météo France recorded 13 centimetres of rain at Mandelieu-la-Napoule on Friday night and winds of up to 135 kilometres per hour in Le Dramont, near Saint Raphael, caused various trees to come down. Firefighters were called out 300 times to evacuate people from their flooded homes. Roads were closed around Antibes, Nice, Grasse and Cannes – cellars were flooded and two campsites had to be evacuated. Six flights due to land at Nice airport were diverted to Marseille or Lyon.
Passengers on an Easyjet flight from Paris to Nice were delayed by five and a half hours on Friday night because of the bad weather on the Riviera. They were due to take off from Orly but were instead shuttled to Charles de Gaulle by bus and didn’t take off until 2.30 in the morning. They reached nice at 4am.
Several passengers on the Corsica ferry from Nice to Ajaccio were abandoned at the port in Calvi in the middle of the storm. The ferry company reportedly decided to turn the boat back for Toulon and the passengers were due to be picked up by another boat but it did not arrive for an hour and a half and spent the whole night at the quayside.
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source www.rivieraradio.com
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