Piedmont, back to the nightmare of flooding: the Tanaro overflows in Garessio, emergency throughout the valley – The Republic

“We are afraid, you are bordering on the situation of the flood of ’94″. So 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 by telephone by Ansa. 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 Tanaro is broke, splitting in two the cou ntry, flooding in via Vittorio Emanuele. Closed bridges Odasso, Barjols and ‘Lepetit’. Closed via Aleramo, Sparvaira and via Nazionale to the mount. The cellars that overlook the river are flooded.

Is now the more severe the flood emergency in Alta Valle Tanaro. About a dozen kilometres upstream. To Ormea. “The situation is tragic,” they say in common – “We are isolated”. Anas has closed the state to the Liguria region. Closed the bridges. Flooding and landslides are widespread and 80 apartments were evacuated. There are potholes in the road. Two cars and a van parked on the roadside fell into the hole that opened in the centre of the country of the high valley Tanaro, but there are injured. Fortunately, the telephone lines and electricity work, explain still in Town. “It seems to be back to the days of the flood of ’94, we are afraid”. So the mayor of Ceva, Alfredo Defect, another municipality that has paid a high tribute to the flood of more than twenty years ago, when there were nearly a hundred victims.

Homes evacuated also in the valley adjacent to Pamparato where is esondato the stream Casotto and a woman was removed from his home. The Tanaro is a fear in the valley, schools closed, even to the Clavesana family until tomorrow and has been cleared of the fraction Reculata of Carrù, which is located in the vicinity of the river bed of the river Tanaro. Exceed the levels of also watching the streams Corsaglia, Mongia and Ellero, which are tributaries of the Tanaro river. For fear of the flooding of the Ellero evacuated a school in the town of Mondovì. Include flooding even at the Barge and Bagnolo Piemonte.

In the Alexandrian levels of Bormida and Orba are stationary below the level of the guard, as well as in the Northern Piedmont Strona Sesia, Cervo and Elvo.
it will Rain at least until tomorrow morning. The civil protection operations center, open 24 on 24 that coordinates with the multi-functional center of the Harp. Many municipalities have started operations centers municipal. On twitter you can follow real-time updates on critical issues with the hashtag #allertameteoPIE.

First the flooding in Turin for the weather. The fire brigade are in attendance at Bricherasio, where the two channels are out from the banks, invading the backyards and part of some of the farms that were nearby. No person at the moment is in danger, but on the spot there is also the mayor Ilario Merlo, who is monitoring the situation. And' one of the mayors yest erday, as a precaution, has ordered the closure of schools as many of the highest towns of the Val Pellice where you are focusing the most critical. At noon was ordered the closure of the Regional Pinerolo-Saluzzo (589) the height of the bridge on the river Due (resort Staffarda, the municipality of Revello) for the flooding of the river. Schools closed in the Municipalities of Bibiana, Bricherasio, Fenestrelle, Luserna San Giovanni, Lusernetta, Slaughter, Pinasca, Prarostino, Roure, San Germano Chisone, Settimo Vittone, Torre Pellice, Villar Pellice, where they have been evacuated, as a precaution, some of the neighboring property to the streams.

The functional Centre of the Region of Piedmont has issued the bulletin of the alert confirmed a red alert, (that is, code 3, critical, high, the highest level of alert) for the precipitation that affects the valleys Orco, Lanzo, Bassa val susa and Alta val susa, Sangone, Chisone, Pellice, Po, and the plains in carmagnola. In the case of red alert, are possible extended, landslides and flooding of the watercourses, both in the case of the alpine rivers that of the principal watercourses of the valley. Alert orange (code 2, critical, moderate) the valley of Chiusella, and for the plain and the hill of turin: in this case also are possible landslides and flooding, even if the character is more local. The operations room of the metropolitan City of Turin is open from yesterday afternoon.

In Turin, the Region reports the warning levels already achieved for torrents: Pellice and the Stura di Lanzo, both above the warning threshold; the Stura di Viù, above the danger level. On the road, always in Turin and its province, the situation is this: the Sp 590, Municipality of San Mauro in the stretch between km 3+380 and km 4+280 (underpass) is closed from 13.30 until improvement of time; Sp 152 in Torre Pellice, closed the Ford Zucchea; Sp 79 Albiano d’ivrea slowdowns for holes, and water; Sp 32 in Germagnano closed between km 1 and km 3; Sp 158 Garzigliana between km 6+500 and km 10+300 close to the overflow stream Chiamogina; Sp 156, San Sebastian village of Bibiana between km 7+100 and 8 km close to the overflow channel Viaveia; Sp 170 Solid at km 3+900 re-opened after the removal of unl boulder.

7 seven this morning, there were roughly 20 interventions carried out by the fire brigade, but the situation is destined to worsen. The last bulletin up-to-date of the Harp speaks of "precipitations strong that the entire range of the foothills, on the high

Tanaro and the lower Val Chisone and Val Sangone, in addition to the Val Pellce. In the 12 hours have fallen more than 100 mm of water, and for the day today are expected between 150 and 200. Concerned about the water course that began to swell. In Turin, the Pellice, which in Luserna San Giovanni has already exceeded the alert level set at 1.5 meters, and the Stura di Lanzo that passed in Lanzo precisely and Chisone are supervised special.

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