"It's a disaster here": Storms in Italy devastated places in Lombardy
Created: 07/28/2022, 14:29
By: Martina Lippl
Storm in Italy: A mudslide devastated two towns in the province of Brescia.
© Screenshot Facebook/Questura di Brescia
There is mud and rubble everywhere, roads are impassable.
50 people had to be evacuated.
Storms caused enormous damage in two communities in the province of Brescia in Italy.
Barone – The civil defense in Italy had issued a severe weather warning for
Lombardy
,
Piedmont
,
Veneto
,
Trentino
and
South Tyrol
for Thursday night .
Heavy rains fell in the Valcamonica valley in the province of Brescia.
"From a water bomb," reports the Italian news agency Ansa.
The torrent burst its banks and flooded the area between the towns of
Niardo and Braone
.
A real mudslide hit the two municipalities, the Brescia administrative district announced on Thursday.
The SS42 state road and the railway line had to be closed at night.
Trees, boulders and mud - storms in Italy cause catastrophic flooding.
© Screenshot Facebook/Questura di Brescia
Storm in Italy: "It's a disaster here"
“At midnight, after an hour of intense rain, we heard a big noise, it sounded like an earthquake: it was the flooded creek.
Now it's a disaster here," reports Carlo Sacristani, Mayor of Niardo.
According to the authorities, 50 people had to be evacuated for safety reasons.
It smelled of gas.
Three people were injured and taken to hospitals.
However, her condition is not serious.
Everywhere mud and debris after storms in Italy: Dozens of cars, like the Fiat here, were simply washed away.
© Screenshot Facebook/Questura di Brescia
Masses of water and debris rolled through the two villages.
Dozens of cars lie in the rubble.
In some houses, the mud reaches up to the first floor and higher.
Doors were ripped out and used as walkways across the mud to bring the elderly and children to safety, reports
www.giornaledibrescia.it.
The clean-up work is underway.
Firefighters check and secure the two locations.
The state road is now open to traffic again.
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Weather chaos in Italy - Enormous hailstones
There have also been violent storms in other parts of northern Italy in the past few days.
The Milan daily
Corriere della Sera
showed photos of thick hailstones from the province of Cuneo in Piedmont.
The Italian fire brigade was in constant use due to a violent hailstorm in Lombardy.
According to their own statements, the fire brigades responded to fallen trees, flooding and roof damage.
Some of the hail was enormous, as can be seen in photos on Twitter.
According to the website il.meteo.it
, the reason for the violent storms in Italy is
the influx of colder air that mixes with the hot air on site.
The weather portal also warns of large hail and even tornado danger on Thursday.
This time Lombardy, Piedmont and Veneto would be particularly affected.
The Italian civil defense has also issued a weather warning: yellow alert, the lowest of the three alert levels (yellow, orange and red).
However, that can change during the day.
The north of Italy is suffering from a drought.
The Po - Italy's largest river - has low water.
But the short, violent storms cannot make up for the lack of rain.
"If the rains are not well distributed in space and time, they help little or nothing," the
Corriere
quoted the coordinator of the Italian Society of Environmental Geology, Massimiliano Fazzini.
Storms and forest fires in Italy
Forest and bush fires are causing problems in Italy.
200 people had to be evacuated on Thursday night.
A fire has broken out again in San Michele del Carso north of Trieste.
According to the Italian fire brigade, the flames approached 500 meters from the houses.
There was another fire front.
36 firefighters were deployed with ten vehicles.
Two Canadair firefighting aircraft from the National Corps Air Fleet provided aerial support at dawn.
Forest fires are also raging in Germany.
In Brandenburg and in the Saxon Switzerland National Park, the situation is still critical.
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