Roads such as streams, nightmare in the North Three victims in Lombardy and Liguria – The Day

Roads such as streams, nightmare in the North Three victims in Lombardy and Liguria – The Day

Retired swept away by the water in Genoa. Landslide killer in Varese

Bruna Bianchi

Milan

THREE DEAD, one in Liguria, two to Cerro Laveno fraction of lakeside town on Lake Maggiore in the province of Varese. A day war report ended with a tragic outcome. The greatest tribute in Varese, where the mountain when it was one in the morning came off a landslide that swept away a house, bringing death and destruction. From this toll confirmation of a fragile territory.

IN AN HOUR YESTERDAY fell on the western Liguria and Genoa 103 mm of rain, 800 in two weeks, a little less than a year falls in . It was a disaster from the morning, with rivers and streams overflowed, sea force 8 winds of 100 kilometers per hour. A retired 67-year-old Luciano Balestrero, died inland Genoa Serra Riccò, he had gone to take a look at his parked car and was swept away by the torrent Riasso. From the belt of Genoa (Sampierdarena and Voltri) to the cities of the Riviera di Ponente, Imperia and Savona, and, to the southern Piedmont with Alexandria flooded by the river Bormida a catastrophe. A Omegna was evacuated to hospital. Both finished in the Ligurian valleys under water: Polcevera and Vallescrivia with Busalla flooded and a high landslide risk. Aurelia and highways were closed at times and hours later reopened. For firefighters and civil protection was a day to run without losing a minute, now on the coast now inland from the capital to the first coastal municipalities of the Levant (Portofino and Santa Margherita) to those in the west, to the border with France, so that in the early afternoon, the Regional Minister for Civil Protection Raffaella Paita has asked for help from fellow Romans. He also asked the army to such danger loomed everywhere.

PROTECTION National Civic has therefore sent on the afternoon of 25 teams with dewatering pumps and construction equipment; they were joined by another 150 volunteers in Friuli and Trentino most other organizations in solidarity. I’m ready to go even teams Umbria and Marche. Many elderly people were rescued from house to house and warned: “Do not go out, you can reach the upper floors of the houses.” In Marassi, on the banks of the fearsome Bisagno, the sirens have sounded like during the war. The situation was also heavy on the roads for the many landslides; the county, on the A10 (in Busalla) and the A12, plus other arteries in the inland valleys between Liguria and Piedmont. Closed for hours, even the airport in Genoa and, at times, the Aurelia road from east to west, following reopened. Alassio is flooded, Voltri a house partially collapsed due to a landslide, the river is Cerusa overflows. Nell’Imperiese the railway line was interrupted by a landslide.

IN LOW Piedmont river Bormida arrived at six feet tall and provincial 10 was closed the bridge and were evacuated to the full the families of the flood plain areas. In Gavi, home of fine wine lost, other people had to leave the house. A total of 150 displaced people in the Alessandria area. The President of the geologists of Liguria Charles Malgarotti thundered: “There are 7,000 landslides and the risk will increase. You have to hurry, but the government does not involve us. ”

Milan has experienced the darkest day of this fall: the Seveso again and overflows from manholes is leaking like a fury from Niguarda to the Isola neighborhood, already crippled two days ago. Closed as a precaution the stops of the M5 due to the inability to cross the street, a woman was saved by a photographer while he was drowning in Viale Fulvio Testi, flooded by the river. On the opposite side of the city overflows the Lambro, which forced the closure of other underground stations, this time the line 2.

FULL Po moved to Ferrara and the alert is again the maximum while in Turin has already lapped the Murazzi. The river Staffora, near Pavia, flooded the villages Oriolo Voghera, Godiasco and the road between Rivazzano and Salice Terme. Discomfort strong for trains in Liguria, Piedmont and Lombardy. In the evening, several links have been reactivated. Today’s forecast says that you can take a breather.