Two women of 65 and 69 years were killed in their car swept away by the waters of the river Elsa overflows due to bad weather in the area between Albinia and Manchester, in Tuscany.
The tragedy The two elderly victims were sisters Marisa and Graziella Carletti, 69 and 65, originating of Manchester. Their car, a Citroen C3, has been overwhelmed by the flood of Sgrilla ditch, a tributary of the Elsa, in the locality Sgrillozzo, while traveling along a road in the valley. The vehicle with the two bodies ended up in a field at 60-70 meters from the road, now surrounded by mud, so as to impede the recovery of the bodies of two women. The car was swept away in a place where the road, flat, intersects with the ditch of Sgrilla. In the area affected by the weather firefighters have carried out dozens of rescues. With the aid of a helicopter equipped with night lighting system made available by the Air military seek any other cars involved. The affected area is the same as the bad weather had three deaths in 2012.
The mayor: the alert was moderate “We had reported a moderate weather alert, 40-80 mm wide, and it would end around 18 Instead, the rain continued and was struck with greater violence, “according to the mayor of Saturnia (Grosseto), Marco Galli. The mayor has done a preliminary survey in the municipality and noted flooding, damage to roads, collapsed bridges, flooded homes. The weather situation in the south of the province of Grosseto is slow and gradual improvement.
Flood in Parma also badly hit Monday Parma, where the waters of the river Baganza have caused a flood. The city is still in full emergency phones locked, closed roads, flooded cellars and so much damage yet to be quantified. The City has the phones fully insulated, therefore not answer the switchboard and can not answer the headquarters of the Municipal Police. Similar problems in other areas of the region, especially in the Piacenza and Reggio Emilia. “The roads are still in a situation of total insecurity – says the town hall in a note – closed the underpass via Europe, closed square Marsala and via Varese. It is closed to the square Barbieri accesses via Spezia and via Volturno with vehicles diverted in Victoria Avenue; closed Via Po and Via Shuttle, New bridge on Baganza (Bridge of Carrettieri) is not feasible except by means of an emergency, even partially closed off Farnese and via Taro. The patrols of the municipal police are engaged on the road at full strength; agents also operate within the district between Via and Shuttle via Baganza to bring aid to citizens in distress. ” Instead, it functions regularly train station, including avenues Falcone and Borsellino. The new bridge to the north, Europa Bridge is passable with the obligation to turn left.
The Alexandrian Very impressed even the Province of Alessandria, who has asked the state disasters: isolated villages, landslides and flooded roads, with significant damage to Novi Ligure where schools were closed today. “The situation is really critical – said the mayor of the town, Rocchino Muliere – Half the city is flooded, we are dealing with emergencies, but it’s really a difficult situation.” A Gavi, the center of the province of Alessandria most affected, “there is a road that has not been covered by mud. The sewers are skipped, and the two fractions are still isolated. “
Verbania As a result of a landslide due to bad weather, the state road 34 ‘of Lake Maggiore” has been temporarily closed to traffic in both directions, at the height of 35,800 km, in the municipality of Cannobio, in the province of Verbania.
Genoa Meanwhile, it improves the situation in Genova five days by the flood of Genoa and after 72 hours of Red Alert: Civil Protection said termination of the emergency. The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating culpable disaster after opening the file for manslaughter. In the focus of the work done and those not made in hydraulics, maintenance of river beds and the chain of activities of administrative bodies, failure to alert emergency management, civil protection plan to the City Council. The police has acquired the aerial photographic surveys made by the Naval Air core of the financial police. The attention of the investigators focus on the past three years, the flood of 2011, for which a pool of experts had made a full report which will form the starting point of the new survey.
In the Ligurian hinterland , the situation still critical in Roussillon and Campo Ligure, in Valle Stura, return to defend themselves from the overflow of the river that gives its name to the valley. The city of Genoa, the highest alert ended at midnight and continued until six exclusively for La Spezia and the Cinque Terre. They continue, however, the hardships for families: for the day today it was decided to suspension of teaching in all schools of every grade Genoese.
The road persistence of bad weather in the North-West has had a serious impact on the viability: the Milan-Genoa railway line, just reopened after the derailment of a Frecciabianca Friday, she suffered further stoppages and the many commuters who daily ply between the two capitals had adapt to the bus transfer arranged by Trenitalia. Difficult to reach even in the Lombardy motorway: A7 was closed temporarily in multiple strokes and the full reopening has come only in the evening.
Discomfort also in air traffic : four flights expected arrival at the airport in Colombo of Genoa were diverted to Milan or Pisa, while the majority of departures has been deleted. The governor Claudio Burlando announced that the state of emergency will be announced Friday, and increases the estimate of public damage, rising from 200 million to 300 million, while private ones – more difficult to track – amount to at least a hundred million.
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