Video Corsica was swept away Thursday, August 18, by winds of exceptional violence. At least five people have died and 45,000 households are deprived of electricity.
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The beauty island woke up with a start, Thursday, August 18. Corsica was swept away by a violent storm after significant thunderstorms in the night. The island was placed in orange alert by Météo-France until 11 a.m.
According to an assessment, always provisional, the bad weather killed at least five people. A 46-year-old man perished in Calvi (Haute-Corse), victim of the fall of a tree on his bungalow. In Corsica-du-Sud, a 13-year-old teenager was also killed by the fall of a tree on her bungalow in a Sagone campsite. And a 72 -year -old woman died after the fall of the roof of a hut on her vehicle.
Exceptional gusts of wind have been recorded. “An exceptional burst at 224 km/h has just been measured at Marignana station (about thirty kilometers from Sagone) on an exposed part of the west coast [of the island]”, reported the Meteorological Institute On his Twitter account at 8:30 am A burst of 131 km/h was recorded in Ajaccio, and another 220 km/h in Marignana, he also details.