Torrential rain and high winds from Storm Alex cut off whole villages and triggered landslips. FMTNews France Italy StormAlex
ROQUEBILLIRE: Two people died in Italy and eight were missing in France on Saturday after storms, torrential rain and flash floods battered the border area, washing away roads and houses, cutting off whole villages and triggering landslips, as hundreds of rescuers raced to find stranded survivors.
“There must be one room left in my house,” she said after she returned following evacuation on Friday to survey the damage wrought by the Vesubie River. But late Saturday the Italian civil protection agency spokesman Mara Anastasi said 21 people had been found and evacuated by helicopter, including two Germans and their grandchildren.
“We are thunderstruck,” said Serge Franco, a resident of Roquebilliere, some 50km north of Nice, as rescue helicopters hovered overhead.
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