A disturbance full of rain interrupts the summer that has just begun and causes damage in Emilia, with some streams and canals overflowing and rivers suddenly in flood that descend from the Apennines to the plain between Modena and Piacenza, on red alert, causing concern for a night and a day those who live near water and forcing the opening of expansion tanks.
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.
Dozens of roads interrupted by landslides and mudslides on hills and mountains, flooding on the lower floors of houses, small bridges collapsed and some families evacuated and rescued by firefighters with rubber dinghies, in particular in Langhirano and Mulazzano (Parma), where several homes were invaded by water and in Campogalliano (Modena), after yesterday Pavullo, also on the Modena Apennines, experienced an afternoon with a good part of the center underwater.
Also affected by the wave of bad weather were northern Tuscany with Pistoia, which experienced a night of anxiety with around seventy interventions by the firefighters due to water ending up in the streets and underpasses. And the Polesine with Rovigo, where the first day of the new mayor Valeria Cittadin was characterized by a visit to the places hit by a storm and a whirlwind, in particular in the ‘Aliper’ shopping center, where there was damage to the inside and outside and an uncovered shop.
In Emilia the floods exceeded threshold 3 on the Arda (which reached the overflow at the Mignano dam, in the Piacenza area), on Samoggia, Tiepido, Secchia and Enza. All the cash registers in Secchia, Panaro, Enza, Crostolo and Parma have become operational.
Crostolo and Enza flooded in some sections in the afternoon.
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 of 112 millimeters was reached.
In Prignano sulla Secchia, in the Modena area, a bridge over the Rossenna torrent 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.
The alert triggered in Stromboli, in the Aeolian Islands, is of a different type: from yellow to code orange for the volcano, after the assessments that emerged during a meeting of the competent bodies.
ANSA Agency Civil Protection, orange alert for Stromboli volcano – News – Ansa.it The orange alert is triggered for the Stromboli volcano due to the reports and danger assessments made available by the national institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the Cnr-Irea and the Universities of Florence, Palermo, Pisa and Turin. (HANDLE) Reproduction reserved © Copyright ANSA
