Rain galore and the summer that has just begun seems like a memory. Emilia Romagna has been hit by a disturbance capable of causing damage. The rivers descend from the Apennines to the plain between Modena and Piacenzaon red alert, worrying those who live near water for a night and a day and forcing when the expansion tanks open. There is one victim: an 85-year-old man died in the Parma area after the Termina torrent flooded. His body was recovered by the firefighters around 8pm at Lido Valtermina, in the municipality of Traversetolo.
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The damage is already extensive: roads interrupted by landslides and mudslides in the hills and mountainsflooded houses, small bridges collapsed and some families evacuated and rescued by firefighters with rubber boats, in particular in Langhirano and Mulazzano (Parma), where several homes were invaded by water and in Campogalliano (Modena), after yesterday Pavullo, still on the Modena Apennines, experienced an afternoon with a good part of the center underwater. The floods exceeded threshold 3 on Arda (which reached the overflow at the Mignano dam, in the Piacenza area), on Samoggia, Tiepido, Secchia and Enza. The rain reached peaks of 190 millimeters on the Secchia and on the mountains and hills of the provinces of Parma, Reggio and Modena, a historic maximum was reached, 112 millimetres.
Even Tuscany underwater
Also affected by the wave of bad weather Northern Tuscany with Pistoiawho experienced an anxious night with one seventy interventions by the firefighters for the water that ended up in the street and underpasses. And Polesine with Rovigo, where the first day of the new mayor Valeria Cittadin was characterized by a visit to the affected places from a storm and a whirlwindin particular in the ‘Aliper’ shopping center, where there was damage inside and outside and a shop uncovered.
Collapsed bridges and animals in danger in the Modena area
In Prignano sulla Secchia, in the Modena area, it is a bridge over the Rossenna stream collapsed, swept away by the flood. A Beagle dog farm isolated, as documented by the owner Alberto Calbucci. “I have my dogs, but also goats, chickens. Where should we go!”, He said when faced with the municipality’s order to leave. Even in the Bolognese area some people were evacuated to the Apennines, between Vergato and Castel d’Aiano. In the valley of the Sporzana stream, the water damaged the main methane pipeline in Sivizzano, a hamlet of Fornovo di Taro (Parma), leaving the entire area without power. And in Parma in the afternoon she was the vice president of the Region for a point in the prefecture with civil protection.
Of a different type is the alert that is triggered in Stromboli, in the Aeolian Islands: from yellow to code orange for the volcano, after the assessments that emerged during a meeting of the competent bodies.
June 26, 2024
