Due to the bad weather, “flooding of the main streams in the Cogne valley” was recorded. Thus the update bulletin of the Functional Center of the Aosta Valley. The Aosta Valley town is already isolated due to a landslide that fell on the regional road near the hamlet of Epinel. In the valley “debris flows occurred along” five gullies and the “flooding of the Valnontey torrent” was recorded. The hydrogeological alert in the Gran Paradiso valleys rises from yellow to orange.
H2 alert threshold exceeded
What is worrying are the forecasts of rain which could continue until the early hours of Sunday. 1,300 people live in Cogne, plus many tourists in this period. Traffic is also banned along the municipal roads of Lillaz and Valnontey, in the latter case due to a landslide in Teuf. The authorities invite the population to “not travel on municipal roads”. Another collapse blocked transit to the hamlet of Valnontey. Here the rain gauges recorded around 100 millimeters of rain falling, double compared to the Champorcher area. In Cogne the debris flows occurred along the gullies of Pont du Teuf, Costa del Pino, Trajo, Les Ors, Tsa de sèche. The Valle d’Aosta Regional Functional Center reports the exceeding of the H2 alert threshold (the second on an increasing scale of three points) in the waterways in Gressoney, Cogne and Valsavarenche. The firefighters were involved in at least a dozen interventions due to flooding, concentrated in the lower Aosta Valley. Precisely in this area, in Hone, the roof of a shed near the sports field was uncovered by the action of the disturbance.
Bad weather in the North East
The bad weather has also spread to Piedmont. The Canavese area was particularly affected, hit by landslides and floods and record-sized hail in Cuorgné and Valperga. At the moment there are no people involved, but two landslides have blocked a municipal road and some shepherds are unable to go down to the valley.
