Bad weather hits the north. Autobrennero closed

Published on: 08/30/2020 6:53 PM

The north prey to bad weather. The situation due to bad weather throughout South Tyrol remains critical. Until tomorrow, reports the province of Bolzano, the civil protection status remains at the Bravo level. The Brennero state road has not yet been reopened, closed since last night near Campodazzo. Cleaning work is still in progress. Also in the afternoon the A22 between San Michele and Bolzano Sud closed. In the afternoon in Chiusa there was a flood of the Isarco river. Civil Protection has invited the population to leave the streets and public squares, and move to the upper floors of the buildings. The flooding caused some warehouses and garages to flood.

The wave of the flood reached the village of Egna in the late afternoon. More than 320 people were evacuated. In part, they found hospitality with relatives and in part in the gymnasium of the German-language secondary school in via Bolzano that had been made available to them. The resistance of the embankments between Bronzolo and Egna will be under observation in the next few hours. Critical situation also for rail traffic. The Brenner line on the Fortezza-Bolzano section was closed near Chiusa. Replacement buses have been established. The situation is also constantly monitored at Bassa Atesina.

In the last two days (August 29 and 30) some 3,000 firefighters have carried out more than 400 interventions. Technicians from the mountain basins, the forest service and the highway service are also on call around the clock.

FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA – In Friuli Venezia Giulia the criticality to be resolved urgently refers to the intake works of the aqueduct managed by Hydrogea in Vito d’Asio, which has suffered damage and cannot supply water. There are 11 municipalities that are at risk of running dry: Vito d’Asio, Pinzano, Castelnuovo, Forgaria, Clauzetto, Travesio, Sequals, Arba, Vivaro, Fanna and Meduno. The managers signed a subsidiarity protocol and therefore the means to tackle the problem were immediately activated. Cafc, which has a tanker truck, has already intervened in Forgaria, the first municipality to be left without supply due to the configuration of the network. During the day there were numerous blackouts: in the afternoon there were 6000 disabled users, of which 3000 in the areas of Aquileia and Fiumicello and the same number between Aviano and Caneva. There are currently 2,000 without electricity.

The hydrographic situation registers the Tagliamento in Venzone above the alert level (it reached the level of 2.59 m in the ascent at 11:30; the flood peak passes through Latisana with levels below the alert level). The other reference hydrometers in the Cellina-Meduna basin and the Isonzo basin and Cormor stream are below alert levels. Lumiei ford is closed in Socchieve Township. The fords of Rauscedo and Murlis in Meduna are closed.

VENETO – “It is a dramatic balance, wind that exceeds 150 kilometers per hour, 150 houses, dozens of warehouses, public infrastructures: once again we are on our knees”, said the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia at the Coc headquarters in Arzignano, in province of Vicenza, together with the mayor Alessia Bevilacqua. The Vicenza driver was hit by a whirlwind on Saturday afternoon causing extensive damage.

“Atmospheric adversities tell us that this is the same disturbance that started in Verona and is massacring the Veneto these days. For me, therefore, it is a single state of crisis, a single package that we are building, I hope within a few days Also close this game and present the account in Rome – said Zaia – I hope that Rome will give answers in a very short time ”.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte heard Luca Zaia over the phone and, according to what we know, he would have said that he was ready to assess the state of emergency in Veneto due to bad weather. The prime minister also called the mayor of Verona, Federico Sboarina and is in constant contact with the head of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli.

Conte, they report, expressed the greatest closeness and solidarity with Zaia and Sboarina for the affected populations. The Venetian governor will send a complementary report and the prime minister said that he will evaluate the possibility of declaring a state of emergency after the request made by the president of the region himself.

LOMBARDY – “The balance of bad weather at this time in Lombardy is heavy”. Thus the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, on his Facebook page. The investigation of the 38-year-old cremasco is continuing, which yesterday was overwhelmed by a torrent in the floods during an excursion in the Varese area. I thank the local administrators, firefighters, police forces and civil protection volunteers committed throughout the territory to restore safety and damage caused by floods, landslides, gusts of wind and heavy hail, “he adds. “We never give up” is the gloss on Fontana’s post.

Bad weather did not spare the Bergamo area: various inconveniences caused by rain and hail, the latter falling especially along the shore of Lake Lovere, in the municipalities of Luzzana, Cologno al Serio and Trescore Balneario. Retentions on the roads. Two motorists were trapped in an underpass along Provincial Highway 42 toward Lovere. The intervention of the firemen was necessary to recover the damaged cars. There were no injuries. Weather conditions are expected to improve tomorrow.

MARKET – “I called the Ancona Police Headquarters because our Police Headquarters was affected by a whirlwind that broke 30 windows and damaged 50 service cars,” said Prefect Franco Gabrielli, Chief of Police, tonight at the 91st edition of the award . Viareggio Rèpaci literary to receive a special award, speaking of the damage of bad weather.

ORANGE ALERT – According to forecasts, a disturbance linked to the previous one, currently in the Balearic Islands, will cross Italy tomorrow and then move rapidly towards the Balkan sectors. All this will lead to a phase of bad weather in most of our central regions in extension to the Northeast regions, with an associated strengthening of the north winds in much of the Center-South and a significant and generalized thermal decrease.

Based on the available forecasts, the Ministry of Civil Protection in accordance with the regions involved – which are in charge of activating the civil protection systems in the affected territories – has issued a new warning of adverse weather conditions, which expands and integrates generalized ones. in the days before. Meteorological phenomena, which impact the different areas of the country, could determine hydrogeological and hydraulic criticalities that are reported, in a national summary, in the national criticality and alert bulletin that can be consulted on the Department’s website (www.protezionecivile. gov.it).

The warning foresees from early morning tomorrow, Monday August 31, scattered rains, predominantly of a downpour or storm character, first in Lazio and Tuscany, rapidly spreading to Umbria, Abruzzo, Marche, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Lombardy. The phenomena will be accompanied by heavy showers, frequent electrical activity, local hailstorms and strong gusts of wind. From tomorrow to late morning, strong to stormy winds are also expected from the northern quadrants, first in the Tyrrhenian sectors of Lazio and Campania, extending to Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia and Sicily, with storm surges throughout of the exposed coasts.

Based on the expected and ongoing phenomena, an orange alert was evaluated for tomorrow, Monday, August 31, in the autonomous province of Bolzano, in the center of Veneto and in the north-central coastal sector of Lazio. In addition, the yellow alert was evaluated in Lombardy, in the autonomous province of Trento, in the rest of Veneto, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the eastern sector of Emilia-Romagna, in most of Tuscany, in the Marches, in Umbria, in the rest of Lazio. , in Abruzzo, in Molise, in the north of Puglia, in the north of Sicily.