What human and material toll after the very heavy rains?

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The Cannes area (Alpes-Maritimes) was the one that was hardest hit by very severe and short-term bad weather on Monday, September 23, 2024.

While Météo France had placed the department in Yellow warning for thunderstorms (until 11am) and rain-flood (until noon), here is the assessment made by the prefecture, which it explains to actu Nice.

No casualties

Contacted by us, the prefect’s chief of staff, Benoît Huber, specified that there were no human victims to deplore. “About ten people were the subject of a safety by the firefighters, mainly motorists who were trapped by the waters,” he told actu Nicearound noon.

The Alpes-Maritimes departmental fire and rescue service also reports five rescues and numerous interventions still in progress, for pumping and reconnaissance operations.

Material damage

“There would be around a hundred flooded premises,” adds Benoît Huber, speaking of an “exceptional and very dangerous phenomenon.”

Cannes City Hall has taken the problem head on by carrying out a special intervention in the République district, the hardest hit by this intense and very localised storm.

Other affected municipalities

But other towns have been affected. The prefect’s chief of staff mentions “Mougins, a mudslide in Pégomas, linked to a construction site that affected a home, a lightning strike in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat”. In Mougins, the town hall specifies that trees have fallen on certain roads.

Antibes was also impacted, particularly the northern part of the town, near the Grasse road and the D6107.

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