Violent storms and flooding send water cascading through Antibes, Cannes and Nice, inundating a retirement home and killing three people inside Violent storms and severe flooding along the French Riviera have left 13 people dead, according to emergency services, including three people who drowned in a retirement home after a river broke its banks.Heavy flooding along the Cote d’Azur, in France’s south-east, on Saturday saw the river Brague burst its banks close to the city of Antibes, flooding a home for the elderly.