Uprooted trees, floods and roofs blown off. The bad weather in Italy has not even spared the Friuli Venezia Giulia. About 70 interventions and also the activation of a yellow alert by the Civil Protection. The most affected areas were the Pordenone area and the lower Friuli area; no injuries were reported.
The bad weather now continues to hit; Aosta Valley and Piedmont They are counting the damage but rescue operations are still ongoing.
A Macugnagaone of the Piedmontese towns hardest hit by last weekend’s wave of bad weather, operations are underway to empty cellars and homes of mud and gravel.
A Torino There were over fifty interventions by the firefighters after the storm that hit the city and various parts of the province. The operations mainly concerned unsafe or fallen trees and torn roofs.
A Cognein Valle d’Aosta the evacuation operations of tourists continue. The Minister of Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci, explained that the local roads will not be passable for a month but in the meantime the aqueduct has been restored, even if as a precaution it is necessary to boil the water for food use.
Critical situation at Cerviniawhere the center was flooded last weekend by the overflowing Marmore torrent. Hundreds of volunteers are working flat out shoveling mud and cleaning up the town; the drop in temperatures has helped slow the flow of the watercourse. Damage to the flooded businesses has been estimated at millions of euros.
No the disturbance descends towards the SouthStrong winds and thunderstorms are expected with a yellow alert in nine regions: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto. Rain is also expected in Lazio.
Davide Fifaco
