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Genoa – Orange alert degraded to yellow in ECB zone until 12 today. After a Saturday of serious annoyances due to bad weather and a quiet night, around 10:15, Arpal has decided to issue a new bulletin with degradation.
The most intense storm structure, on Saturday morning, first affected the upper Val d’Aveto (Cabanne di Rezzoaglio (67.6 mm / 1h), then the Genoese west and Turchino (Isoverde 121.8 mm / 1h, 18 , 6 mm / 5 minutes), while spending the night without further consequences due to bad weather
The alert in detail
- In east-central Liguria (BCE areas, small and medium basins):
YELLOW until 12.00.
- In western Liguria (zone A, small and medium basins):
YELLOW until 08:00 on Sunday, August 30
- Within central western Liguria (zone D, small and medium basins):
YELLOW until 08.00 hours on Sunday, August 30.
Bad weather, interior alarm: “Delayed works, enormous risks”
“Our past requests to secure the territory must be satisfied. Each municipality sends proposals to the region to start projects, but there is little money. And those few are used for emergencies, not for prevention. We’re late and if we don’t run for cover i the risks will be enormous».
It is a cry of alarm and at the same time a warning from the mayor of Masone and coordinator of the small municipalities of Anci Liguria Enrico Piccardo. Yesterday Genoa and its hinterland, starting from Campomorone and the upper Valpolcevera, faced the violent storms of an orange alert day, which lasted until 11 this morning. While on shore, sea trumpets rose in front of Pegli and Voltri. And Piccardo’s mind, as well as that of other mayors in the interior, goes back a year ago, to the storm in the Stura Valley. To the numerous landslides throughout the territory. And finally the need to transform hydrogeological instability into a problem to be dealt with in a concrete way.
The eyes of forecasters Arpal yesterday they all pointed towards the night that had just passed, when the true front of the uproar was awaited. And the storm that this will cause today.
Restaurants and flooded streets
In Campomorone, yesterday morning, one of the most critical situations was experienced. The enormous mass of water and mud from the flooding Verde torrent submerged the ford of Bessega, causing fear of a flood. “A pedestrian bridge that connects some houses with the road was submerged – explains Mayor Giancarlo Cámpora – Fortunately, it was not necessary to evacuate anyone. The construction of a bridge in the road is being studied, which will avoid the isolation of the inhabitants in these cases. In via Villa Berrone a buried stream has breached the asphalt and flooded the road. “That is why we are finishing the construction of the containment tanks – explains the mayor – but they are not yet operational. We did not expect this alert.
In Isoverde about 250 mm of rain fell in three hours and in one case almost 20 in 5 minutes. Very high amounts.
Two restaurants were flooded in Campomorone. “We lay on the floor to try to keep the water out of the room, while my father directed the traffic,” says Roberto Cosso, from the Rensin restaurant. “We have already experienced two floods. We were inside and limited the damage “, explains Enza Fioramonte del Girasole. Nuisance also in Mignanego, Ceranesi and Sant’Olcese.
Storm on the Praglia plains and the road to the Bocchetta pass was closed. Local police and civil protection volunteers monitored the channels. Several floods and wind damage, with gusts reaching 120 kilometers per hour. Firefighters in action in Pontedecimo, where some chimneys have fallen to the street, and at the mouth of the Polcevera, to save two roe deer. A vacuum cleaner was sent to via Semini.
Sea trumpets in the West
On Friday night at 10:30 p.m. the wind tore off part of the roof of the Pam supermarket in via Don Giovanni Verità, in Voltri, and moved bins and other objects. Perhaps a roof tile hit a 17-year-old boy on the head, who was escorted to the hospital with a minor wound, while yesterday morning one of the sea horns that developed in the west reached Voltri, near via ai Cantieri and through Camozzini. There he broke some tiles from the roof of the Ekom building and smashed the windows of a dozen cars. Move the containers and pluck some branches from the trees. An 8-year-old boy looking out the window was slightly injured by shrapnel.
