The second wave of bad weather that hit the Veneto on May 21st was less impactful than theflood last week, although this time the red alert took place immediately. Thirty interventions by firefighters in the provinces of Vicenza, Padua, Verona and, significantly, in Treviso: already at 1pm in Seren del Grappa the water reached 196.4 millimeters (then rose to 210), against a regional average of 110/150. TO overflowcausing new embankment failures, landslides and the interruption of state and provincial roads, but it was not the rivers, which however grew (5 meters the Bacchiglione2 meters the Sile), but rather channels and streams of the secondary network. On May 22 he was found the hiker died missing on Tuesday in Sedico Belluno, a 57-year-old German who slipped while trying to cross a stream.
The situation of the rivers
For May 22nd, the civil protection department led by Gianpaolo Bottacin expects a slightly improving situation. The isolated showers of the morning should then give way to showers or thunderstorms that will be local to scattered in the following hours. On the front of the waterways, along the system Agno-Guà-Fratta-Gorzone the levels will remain high for the next few hours, especially downstream of the Montebello cash register (Vicenza) where it is passing the flood wave and the contributions from the reclamation network are more concentrated. Given the saturation of the land, the occasional storms that occur during the day could cause further disruption to the area minor hydraulic network; the propagation of flood peaks will determine further increases in levels along the lowland stretches of the rivers Bacchiglione (downstream of LongareVicenza) e Brenta (downstream of Limena, Padua); Increases in levels will affect the Veneto section of the river in the next few hours Livenza (Treviso) and the lower Adige plain sections.
The Laverda embankment has been repaired
Given the state of saturation of the soil, the risk of triggering landslides in mountainous and hilly areas remains. It should be noted that the embankment route on the Laverda torrent, in the Municipality of Sandrigo (in the province of Vicenza), was placed around 04.00 in the morning by the Civil Engineers. The watercourse had broken its banks on Tuesday, on the border between Sandrigo and Schiavon. The Civil Engineers had intervened at the point of the route which had caused inconvenience to sixty people living in the area, who had been evacuated. Inconveniences also on a stretch of provincial road 248.
One person died while trying to cross a swollen stream
The Belluno Alpine Rescue was activated shortly after midnight at the request of the Fire Brigade, contacted by the wife of the tourist, worried because the GPS track of her route, which she was following remotely, had been stopped in the same spot for several hours. The man, who was traveling the Munich – Venice route in reverse, had left on Tuesday morning from a Bed & Breakfasts in Bolago headed tohostel in the Imperina valley, where he had never arrived. The interruption of the track occurred at Val Fogarè. A mixed team of 7 rescuers and 3 firefighters began to search the middle and lower part of the valley, until around 3 they were identified floating in the water, a sweatshirt and some money. At 6am, as soon as it became light, the searches intensified: a team began to search the part high of banksto identify the presumed point of the slide, while a second group made up of Forrists and Saf went up the valley.
The recovery of the body
About forty meters further upstream, rescuers shortly afterwards identified the lifeless body in a tub, it is believed fell from about fifty metres. From the first hypotheses, the man, who was following the Hospice Path, found himself in front of the swollen stream to wade, he tried to pass it further upstream and slipped. The body was loaded onto the Forrista’s waterproof stretcher and lowered with a small cableway up to the mouth of the valley. Not being able to cross the Cordevole in flood, the fire brigade helicopter then transported her to Salet, where she was entrusted to the hearse.
