One hour of storm, flooding and damage on part of the Adriatic coast

LECCE – No. What you see in the opening photo is not a stolen frame from the mythical scene of the football match between married and singles from the film Fantozzi, the first in the saga, when “the cloud of employees relentlessly appears in the countryside”. – as narrated by the voiceover of the late Paolo Villaggio – transforming the tone into a quagmire beyond all limits of feasibility.

More simply, it is a portrait of Spiaggiabella, Lecce marina, after a storm of just an hour, in the early afternoon. And the other images also come from the same area and speak of a malaise that has distant roots, when in other times in many, too many parts of Salento, it was built without schemes, with a succession of amnesties. Ergo, it leads to predictable disasters and with administrations always awkward on point. So much so. Here’s the quagmire, the creeks that sprang up, the water at waist level.

Bad weather has reappeared this afternoon in a fairly restricted area of ​​the province of Lecce, especially affecting the capital’s marinas, on a stretch between Frigole and Torre Rinalda. Causing floods and intervention by firefighters. And with a large number of alerts launched by the Local Police of the capital through the Telegram channel. With via Ustica, Torvaianica and Ortona di Spiaggiabella, it will return to passable only shortly before 9pm and Piazza Paradiso, at that time, is still being resolved. Worse still, it went up north, into the Brindisi area. Here too the streets were flooded with water in basements and houses, walls collapsed, motorists were blocked.

Greater damage, in short, also because it affected the entire coastal strip of the province, up to Fasano. Numerous requests for help, especially from Pezze di Greco and Torre Canne. And a particularly critical situation on state highway 379 to Bari, near Torre Spaccata.

On the part of Brindisi: www.brindisireport.it