Ten minutes of “hell”. The storm that hit Milan and its hinterland on Friday evening around 7.40pm left a trail of damage and inconvenience in its wake. Within ten minutes a real storm hit the Milanese capital and the border areas, causing the collapse of trees and cornices in various areas of the city, while hailstones of incredible size.
Precisely in those ten minutes, the firefighters received a hundred emergency calls, a number that gives the emergency figure. At around 11pm, the firefighters still had around 40 interventions to deal with, all involving unsafe trees. The most complicated intervention, as the command in Via Messina announced, involved a tree of around 20 meters which fell near the Monumental cemetery and severed tram lines 12 and 14. The tree, in addition to occupying a large part of the roadway , also fell in the internal courtyard of a restaurant and only by chance did it not hit some customers who were there at the time.
The councilor for safety of the municipality of Milan, Marco Granelli, also reported damage in “corso Magenta, via La Spezia, via 5°Alpini, via XX Settembre, via Belgioioso, via Dezza, viale Abruzzi Gran Sasso, via Ravizza, via Cimarosa, Sempione Park”. Precisely because of the damage caused by the storm, ATM has announced that lines 5, 9, 10, 12, 14 and 16 have been diverted or interrupted. And another wave of bad weather is expected to arrive on Saturday evening.
