This episode of bad weather affects Occitania and Corsica, causing significant material damage and major disruptions. In Prunelli-di-Fiumorbo, the 21 residents of a nursing home were evacuated and a housing estate was completely flooded with two meters of water in the houses. A person went missing in Haute-Corse on Tuesday October 20, after his vehicle was swept away by the Fiumorbo river in Ghisonaccia during a major Mediterranean episode.
The Solenzara station, located on the border of the two Corsican departments, recorded a cumulative 538.5 mm of rain in six hours on Tuesday. This is a level never seen over this duration in the entire history of surveys in Corsica or France.
Transport infrastructure is heavily affected in the department. The Haute-Corse prefecture indicates that commercial flights have been canceled in Bastia and that all trains have also been interrupted.
Placed on red alert for flooding for a large part of Tuesday, Haute-Corse returned to orange then yellow at the end of the day, just like neighboring Corsica-du-Sud.
Aged around sixty, this person was in a 4x4 in the company of another person at the time of the incident. According to information from the prefecture, one of them was able to escape through the window, while the other is currently missing.