"We know that this attenuation could last today and part of tomorrow, we expect a significant worsening from Thursday-Friday. The time is not able to say".
This was stated by the head of the Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio speaking with journalists at the end of a meeting in the Prefecture of Catania.
"The event is not over. Now there is a moment that seems to be attenuating. Our weather models tell us that the event will return. We are doing what needs to be done in these cases. We tell citizens to keep the 'attention, to follow the instructions of the authorities because they expect hours in this area that can be complicated ", added Curcio. "The values - he specified - speak for themselves. Impressive millimeters of rain fell here. The events were punctual. We think that those 600 millimeters that were recorded in some cases are very clear with respect to the impact that there was on the territory: intense and sudden events in a very critical area ".
The president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci has ordered the closure of the regional offices of the city and of the province of Catania for today and Thursday, following the continuing state of alert for bad weather.
For the storm that hit Catania and the province yesterday, a 53-year-old man died in Gravina di Catania, overwhelmed by water and mud after getting out of his car, perhaps after a road accident.
The unprecedented rain transformed the streets, in particular the very central Via Etnea, into a flooding river and Piazza Duomo into a lake.
Flooded the Pescheria market and the fountain from which the underground Amenano river emerges was invaded.
An ordinance of the Municipality has decreed the closure of all the shops.
