In Mulazzano Ponte the stream flooded, with garages and cellars flooded. “We had to do everything ourselves,” some citizens complain, however. “We have nothing left.”
Strong wave of bad weather in several provinces of Emilia-Romagna on Tuesday 24 June, with several roads flooded, even in residential areas, landslides and floods of rivers and streams which kept the inhabitants of numerous towns along the entire coast in suspense via Emilia, particularly between Piacenza and Modena. Among the most affected areas, however, there is also the Parma area, with the municipalities of Langhirano and Mulazzano Pontea hamlet of nearby Lesignano, with some of the most critical situations.
“Twenty minutes, half an hour, and it was full” he tells Fanpage.it a resident of the small village, overlooking the Parma torrent: it was precisely the flooding of the nearby waterway that created several problems in these parts, although there were no injuries, serious damage or citizens who had to leave their homes, unlike other areas of the region. “At least half a meter of water came” explains another resident, who continues: “A similar thing had already happened ten years ago, but on a lighter scale.” “We have nothing left” says instead a woman who lives in the same building, while the young people of the town lend a hand to those in need, also surrounded by the many memories that from the submerged cellars will soon end up in the waste. “We had to do everything ourselves” more than one person also complains.
However, everyone was aware of the warning issued on the eve of a Tuesday to forget for hundreds of people, so much so that no one admits to having been surprised by the water that reached numerous garages and cellars, in the early hours of dawn, after a whole night of uninterrupted rain. What raises eyebrows, as often happens in these cases, is the rescue machine, which is sometimes considered too slow, but civil protection and firefighters have never stopped doing what was necessary to free the flooded spaces. “We had to take the bags ourselves” recall others. “Now they have started to free everything – concludes another young resident – now we just have to wait for the firefighters to do theirs and then we can do the rest”.
