A violent storm struck in the early afternoon in Carbonia, in Sulcis. The water flooded streets, basements and the ground floors of houses and buildings, although the municipality had already completed the cleaning of the channels. Many inconveniences for motorists, who suddenly found themselves with submerged roads and visibility reduced to a minimum.
A dozen interventions of the fire brigade in various areas of the city, in particular in via Angioy, via della Stazione and Corso Iglesias. The mayor Pietro Morittu has activated the Municipal Operations Center for constant monitoring of the situation and has decided to cancel the public events scheduled for today.
But the worst is over. "Currently it has stopped raining - confirms to ANSA the mayor - According to the data in our possession, 64 millimeters of water fell in the city in 90 minutes, on average 600 fall a year. And that sent the streets into a tailspin."
Fear and damage in Bonnanaro, in the Sassari area, for a storm that raged over the country for an hour, causing flooding, landslides, collapsed walls. A house where an elderly woman lives has been evacuated because water has invaded the house reaching a worrying level. "In my memory, in 70 years, I have never seen so much water come down," says the mayor, Giovanni Antonio Carta, while inspecting the streets of the town to verify the damage. "For now it has stopped raining and we breathe a sigh of relief, but now we have to do the damage count. It will take a lot of money to put everything back in place." In the village numerous walls of fence and support have collapsed, swept away by the fury of the water that comes like a stream from the top of the mountain overlooking the town. Small landslides have occurred in several places, the danger of which must now be verified. A retaining wall also yielded at the cemetery. The mayor made the declaration of public natural disaster and established the Municipal Operations Center to manage the emergency and give assistance to all citizens in difficulty. Dozens, as soon as the storm has given respite, they are emptying their homes of water as they can. Two days ago, Sunday, an equally violent downpour had hit the industrial area where the productive activities of the country are concentrated, flooding the streets and causing the sinking of a road, which was closed and made safe with the intervention of the fire brigade. Vigilantes who also this afternoon returned to Bonnanaro to intervene in the most critical points.
Cloudburst in Sassari: landslides, flooding and an evacuated house
