Cyclone Catastrophe Firinga produced Creating record-breaking rainfall on the French overseas department of Réunion .

Given Giving the name Firinga , it moved Motion generally southwestward for much of its duration .

Firinga passed Motion_directional 50 km ( 31 mi ) west of the island , producing Creating wind gusts that destroyed Destroying 844 homes .

After passing Motion_directional Mauritius , Firinga struck Attack Réunion early on January 29 with wind gusts as strong as .

Firinga isolated several towns due to flooding Catastrophe and left GiveUp power and water outages .

Firinga later dissipated Dispersal on February 7 after having weakened Cause_change_of_strength and executed a loop Motion to the southeast .