Rain and heat made 2 deaths yesterday in Italy: in the Turinese one 70 year old was drowned in the Rio Frejus which was essential; In the Bolognese a 47 -year -old was the victim of an illness in a construction site. Today yellow alert for bad weather in Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto. Campobasso is added today to the 5th cities of red sticker.
The long -awaited rain after the heat wave wounded the mountains, in Piedmont as in the Aosta Valley, yesterday in Veneto. In Bardonecchia, a tourist resort at 1,300 meters above sea level, a 70 -year -old man lost his life, overwhelmed by water and mud after the flooding of the Rio Frejus. Two years have passed since a landslide had terrified the country, the night between 13 and 14 August 2023
Exactly one year after the flood that made it unattainable for twenty -eight days, three landslides have the location at the foot of the Gran Paradiso again. Bardonecchia, a small pearl in a side of the Susa valley, saw himself frightened again by his Rio Frejus, an impetuous stream that passes through the exact city center and who had been able to cancel the local geography with the mud for days in 2023. The maximum alert today was immediately launched by the Municipality. “Do not approach the bridges and avoid moving” was the appeal of the mayor, Chiara Rossetti, who ordered “not to leave the house and not to use the car”.
Floods are recorded on the A32 Turin Bardonecchia motorway and the exit for the tourist resort was closed in both directions. The same for the state road in the stretch near the village, which is full of water. The victim is a 70 -year -old man, whom some people have seen out of their van and disappear between water and mud. The firefighters have now recovered him lifeless. In the meantime, 150 children on vacation in the summer centers have been made safe in the sports hall, also available for those who need it and there is a red area along the stream with a ban on access. The firefighters are committed to freeing the roads from debris and trying to secure them. The times are not yet clear in Cogne but the situation is very different from a year ago, when the Grand Eyvia stream canceled large sections of the only road connection with the valley floor, leading to helicopter 1,800 people who were stuck in helicopter.
Today, however, in a few hours it was possible to grant a transit window on the road, but the definitive reopening date is expected only for Tuesday. And on the next few hours a yellow hydrogeological alert weighs for new possible failures. The landslides came simultaneously with the start of a tourist season that started under the best auspices and the hoteliers hope for a quick reopening: thanks to the AFA in the cities, about 4 thousand people estimated in the country are already. On regional 47 of the Aosta Valley, the storm has hit around 3, more downstream of the town of Cogne. In an hour 40 millimeters of rain mixed with hail were discharged to the ground: stones, mud and plants fell into the street. The major consequences on a stretch of 500 meters of carriageway, in the municipal area of ​​Aymavilles, between Vieyes and the Chevril bridge. Like a year ago, around kilometer 9. Nobody, as then, was injured. The passengers of a car, who found themselves blocked, were recovered in a joint Valley Alpine rescue operation and firefighters. Road closed lower, at the Ozein crossroads, where tourists in the car, even from abroad, found themselves in front of a barrier. A landslide went down only yesterday in Veneto, on the Croda Marcora, in the Belluno Dolomites. He had held the town of San Vito di Cadore with a dense layer of dust, the most important center along the 51 of Alemagna before Cortina d’Ampezzo, without however causing damage in the village.
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