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Genoa. Rain, hail, lightning, strong wind and a sea horn that hit the western districts squarely. They had all the ingredients for a passionate night in Violent storm that struck Genoa between 2 and 4, during the first hours of orange alert. And the consequences were not long in coming: city-wide flooding, damage, blackouts and a scary landslide again on the A26 motorway in Masone.
Almost every underpass on the highway was flooded, from via Perlasca to corso Torino via via Milan where at dawn the recovery intervention was still in progress before reopening to traffic. In Valpolcevera it flooded again via Carnia in Rivarolo. Numerous interventions by the fire brigade to trees fallen or unsafe in via Sturla, via Fillak, via Albaro and in many other areas of the city.
Fear in via Mura delle Chiappe, in the Righi area, where a lightning he broke into a home’s electrical system and a washing machine caught fire. The inhabitants were evacuated during the intervention of the firemen. Many me traffic lights omitted (pay special attention to Black man) and many streets were left in darkness due to faults in public lighting. Another lightning struck the Genoa San Giorgio viaduct, taken by one of the cameras pointed at the bridge.
A marine trumpet sounded near the PSA terminal between Pra ‘and Palmaro causing various damages, including a roofless building in via Ratto.
The Masone motorway exit of the A26 was closed to traffic in both directions due to a landslide.. The reopening took place before 8 am after verification by Autostrade technicians. This is the same landslide that in June forced a long closure of the entrance to Genoa.
Everything under control me country ei streams who have gone through a elevation sudden during peak precipitation, but remained below alert levels. Some worries in Valpolcevera about the Fegino River that was approaching the flood, but fortunately the rain decreased in intensity in time to avoid worse consequences.
The numbers. The most intense storm hit Valbisagno where 15.8 mm of rain fell in 5 minutes at Gavette (2.50 hours) and 37 millimeters in 15 minutes at Quezzi (3.05 hours). The largest hourly accumulation is that of Bolzaneto (72.8 mm) while the area where it has rained the most since midnight is Prai in the municipality of Ligure field (93.2 mm in 6 hours). The data is from the Arpal network.
L ‘orange weather alert it remains in effect until 12 o’clock throughout the province of Genoa and in the Levant of Liguria, then it will be yellow until 15 o’clock unless Arpal is updated several times between morning and afternoon.
The sea horn photo is by Gianluca Gazzo (Crevari), some videos are provided by Limet network collaborators
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