emergency bad weather in Piedmont and Liguria. A little while ago the river Po is released from the banks at Turin, in the area of Murazzi, in the centre of the city. This is confirmed by the Civil Protection. In other points the level of the main Italian river is under observation for the risk of flooding. The mayor Chiara Appendino has signed an ordinance prohibiting the transit of vehicles and pedestrians and parking. Forbidden to pedestrians, also to the Medieval Village, on the banks of the Po. In the area of Turin several waterways, including the Stura Lanzo, have already exceeded the levels of the guard.
Weather in Piedmont. Garessio (Cuneo), full river in the centre of the city
several hours is a red alert in the high Tanaro, even if the situation seems to be slowly improving: “Garessio -the most hit by the flood of the Tanaro river on Thursday morning – arrive comforting news: the river level has dropped one meter. Also, the snow level has lowered and all of this bodes well,” said the viceprefetto di Cuneo, Francesco D’angelo. Currently, also, there are still two hamlets of Priola, Pian Chiosso and Casario, who have been left isolated due to landslides that have blocked the roads: mountain rescue and fire brigade have reached the residents, a hundred people in all, to bring basic necessities.
previously, it was flooded
Forecast: rain in exhaustion by Friday evening
the historical center of Garessio, where the Tanaro river is esondato; the water has invaded the streets of the centre of Bagnasco. Problems at Ceva, where is esondato the rio Cheironzo and the main road to San Bernardino was closed due to a landslide. Closed some factories, the civil protection is inviting people to climb to the high floors of the houses. In Garessio, the Tanaro has reached around noon on Thursday, a peak water of 5,19 meters, then began to decrease and in the update of Arpa Piemonte after the 16 was down to 80 cm, and weighs a 4.39 metres. The level of danger, in that stretch, it snaps to 3,20 meters.
In Mondovi, were evacuated as a precaution schools.
Weather in Garessio (Cuneo), the water enters in the premises
And because of the damage caused by the bad weather were closed to traffic in the Piemonte region, state road 28 "del Colle di Nava" from Garessio in the province of Cuneo up to the regional border with the Liguria region and the state 490 of the "Melogno" in the locality of Bagnasco, where it was established, as a precautionary measure, the ban to all categories of vehicles in both directions at the bridge over the river Tanaro. This is reported by Anas, that is present on the spot with his staff for the traffic management and the recovery of normal movement as soon as the weather conditions allow.
Fear of the bad weather in Liguria and Piemonte
Sixty displaced between Garessio and Bagnasco
The traffic will be rerouted temporarily on the local road network. Anas is recommended to drive carefully and to remember that the evolution of the traffic situation in real time is available on the website www.stradeanas.it or on all smartphones and tablets, thanks to the application “Vai Anas Plus”.
The displaced between Bagnasco and Garessio, according to a figure provided by the provincial Command of the fire department, would be about sixty: fifty in the municipality of Bagnasco and ten in Garessio; for the most part it is arranged by friends or relatives. “We are afraid, you are bordering on the situation of the flood of ’94,” said the mayor of Garessio, Sergio Di Steffano. “The Tanaro river has climbed over the bridge in the middle of Garessio, splitting the city in two,” says the first citizen contacted on the phone by a press agency -. We have closed all the bridges, the factories and the schools. The bars and shops of the centre are flooded. The state road coming from Ceva is closed due to landslides, we are isolated in all respects. At the moment there are no incidents to the people but the situation is bad”.
The mayor: “Ceva more than a hundred displaced persons”
“there Are more than a hundred displaced persons in Ceva. Many are refugees from friends and relatives, others will be accommodated in the centre at the ex-convent of the Capuchin friars”. He said the mayor of Ceva, Alfredo Vizio, which is located in the town Hall to coordinate the interventions on the territory, following the flooding of the Tanaro river. “The country – he added – is divided in two. We had flooding in kindergartens, elementary and high school, in many homes and businesses. By the flood of ’94 to today is the first time that the river exceeds the banks”.
Ferrero closes plant Alba
The factory Ferrero in Alba will remain closed as a precaution by the 18 of this evening and all day tomorrow. This was announced by the company, which has
canceled the planned activities to the end of the week on the occasion of the 70 years of the Group. Alba is the largest of the Italian facilities of the Group and is located not far from the river Tanaro, which in the night is waiting the full.
red Alert in Liguria, collapses a bridge in savona
The heavy rains that in these hours they are hitting the west side of the Liguria region have caused several flooding of roads and basements, especially in Sanremo and Albenga. In Murialdo, savona, collapsed the bridge of the Forges: 40 people have been left isolated. Two families were displaced in one of the hamlets adjacent to the collapse, while some have remained without light. The red alert issued by the Civil Protection will remain in force till 6 am Friday morning in the centre and in the western part of the region.
To worry about in the provinces of Imperia and Savona, and has been the sudden rise in the level of several rivers and streams. Argentina in Montalto Ligure, in the hinterland of Imperia and the Arroscia to Pogli, in the hinterland of Albenga, have exceeded the threshold of full ordinary.They have also grown the levels of the Roja and the Nervia, in the extreme west of liguria and of Centa and of the Neva in the Albenganese. James Giampedrone, councillor fo r civil protection of the Liguria Region, has said that “the situation is constantly monitored” in particular “in the ligurian riviera, where today there have been critical issues for large amounts of rain”. “In the Val Bormida, savona, – has explained Giampedrone – the alert is due to the great quantity of fallen rain in forty-eight hours earlier. The municipalities that were most interested in the day today, with the evacuation of houses cautionary, were in the province of Imperia, Cervo, Vessalico, Taggia, Sanremo, Ceriana, Montalto Ligure, Molini di Triora, Badalucco and Riva Ligure”.
In Piedmont and Liguria transport strike withdrawn
Meanwhile, the strike of the regional public transport scheduled for tomorrow in Piedmont and Liguria has been revoked: tram, bus and metro will circulate regularly. Make it known to the unions that they have received from the commission guarantee the invitation to suspend the protest in the regions affected by the bad weather.
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