Two hours of black sky, flashes, lightning and ice from the sky. Violent thunderstorms Saturday morning they hit almost all the provinces of Venetofrom the Lower Vicenza area to the Lower Padua area, from the Treviso area to the Veronese area and also in the province of Rovigo. The tail end of this May marked by emergencies and floods has made itself heard loud and clear.
In the province of Vicenza
In the Vicenzabetween Agugliaro and Lonigo, the hail fell so thick that it looked like snow: about fifteen firefighters intervened to clear basements and garages. Here and throughout the southern Veneto the crops are the most worrying. «Winter has returned to the municipality of Agugliaro – comments Pietro Guderzo, president of the provincial Coldiretti of Vicenza – we are recording sensational damage this May where the counting of losses no longer ends and affects all agricultural sectors with negative repercussions on all our production with denomination of origin and local specialties”. Codive Verona, the body that deals with subsidized insurance in agriculture, announces that 60 millimeters of rain fell in 10 minutes with small but persistent hail. The phenomenon affected the municipalities of Casaleone, Belfiore, Roverchiara, San Pietro di Morubio and Zevio.
The situation in Rovigo
In the Rodigino the storm with thick and persistent storm grains arrived in the horticultural and cereal growing area from the municipality of Adria (where infiltrations were also recorded in the Municipality) to Ficarolo, Porto Viro, Loreo and Gavello «a strip of fertile land – explain the technicians of Coldiretti Rovigo – where you are discharged a huge quantity of water and ice flooding entire fields. Formulating estimates at this time is not possible because there are numerous factors to be examined. In fact, it is a question of considering not only the direct damages but also the indirect ones which concern the restoration of the land and reseeding”. All land processing phases are blocked due to water stagnation with crops in asphyxiation. In the Upper Padua area, Coldiretti reports, the harvest of Maggengo hay, the main food for animals raised in stables, has been completely eliminated.
Lower Padua flagellated
In the Lower Padua they were one seventy calls for various types of interventions: the firefighters intervened in the Estense area where flooding of basements and a small landslide in Baone were reported, while in Montagnana many streets ended up under water. East of the province of Padua lightning struck a house in the municipality of Saonara: the electrical panel was destroyed, causing great fear for the resident family, but no one was injured.
Heavy rain in the Treviso area
In the Treviso on Friday evening the heavy rains caused many inconveniences, with flooding that worried the population in particular in the Moriago della Battaglia area where the Raboso torrent flooded, making the road impassable. In Valdobbiadene there was a landslide between Follo and Guia along Provincial Road 152, in several places earth and gravel fell onto the road on Provincial Road 3. Yesterday morning there was heavy rain in the Sinistra Piave, in Vidor in the Madonna area delle Grazie the Teva torrent overflowed, flooding a house. In the Right Piave area, however, the firefighters completed around ten interventions due to unsafe branches and small floods in the Montebelluna and Conegliano area. The forecast is good for today, for Tuesday the ARPAV weather report predicts heavy rain again, then the weather should settle down to summer temperatures and clear skies. At least for a few days.
