Snow in Abetone: buried less than two meters, serious inconveniences due to electricity and displacement

Abetone (Pistoia), January 3, 2020 – Abetone is buried under two meters of snow. Exceptional weather conditions have allowed for historic snowfall, which has not been seen in the area for at least thirty years. The snow has begun to make itself felt in the christmas period, ma is in the 72 hours between New Years Eve and January 3 that the snow has intensified dramatically.

Snow in Abetone, all photos – Images were posted by www.abetone.com

At the height of the current situation, with many drawbacks and a super job of firefighters and civil protection. Not only Abetone, even the tall Garfagnana is in full emergency. Here also a blanket of about a meter of snow and many electricity problems: the lines are frozen or blocked by falling trees, collapsed under the weight of snow. And the work of the teams is incessant to return electricity to the isolated villages and houses that are left in the dark.

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“I will ask the Government for a state of national emergency for the damages of these hours due to severe bad weather”: this was stated by the president of the Tuscany Region Eugenio Giani before the snow emergency in high Garfagnana and in the mountains of Pistoia. The president also recalls that he has already called the crisis unit and that the regional civil protection is ready to intervene with the mobile column if necessary, after the first interventions that have already taken place in recent days.

Garfagnana, the problem is electricity

Enel teams work tirelessly on Superior Garfagnana to restore electricity. San Pellegrino in Alpe, fraction of Castiglione Garfagnana, is one of the areas most affected by blackouts. To take stock of the situation, the president of the province of Lucca Luca menesini, who personally visited the area. “There really is a lot of snow – he said – The teams have really worked untiringly and critical situations have been resolved. A big thank you also to the Civil Protection operators, who are also on site to leave no one behind. Now everyone must do your part routine maintenance, no one excluded. “.

Weather: Snowfall continues on Monday, January 4

The snow will continue through all the Tuscan Apennines. This is what Lamma Toscana says, explaining in the forecasts how the snowfall will reach eight hundred meters in altitude on Monday, January 4. Therefore, further rainfall is expected in Abetone and Garfagnana, areas already heavily affected. The snow level will be Tuesday to keep going down, up to 500 meters. The rain will continue until the afternoon. Decreasing temperatures.

Crisis unit called

The Regional Crisis Unit was convened this morning by the President of the Tuscany Region Eugenio Giani and by the regional councilor for civil protection, Monia Monni, on the snow emergency in the upper part of Garfagnana and in the mountains of Pistoia. “Today it became necessary to bring together the prefectures and provinces of Lucca and Pistoia – explains President Giani – together with the representatives of the municipalities concerned, to deal with the serious problems affecting the population of these areas. Monday morning I will reconvene the Crisis Unit For the new updates, in the meantime I want to thank those who have taken action in these hours and continue to work hard to resolve the situation ”.

Mercy in action

La Misericordie della Toscana mobilized for the snow emergency in the mountains of Pistoia. «Two teams from the regional federation – explains a note – intervened in support of station 118 of the Mercy of Abetone (Pistoia), allow mobility of ambulances. Now the main roads have been cleared, but in the last hours the situation was difficult and the support of the volunteers of the Misericordie civil protection was precious, for example to remove a fallen tree and allow an ambulance to reach its destination ” .

«The Mercy volunteers – we still read in the note of the Tuscan Federation – they have also been made available to the population and to support the interventions of the operators of the municipality of Abetone and will also remain in action in the next hours and at night. The greatest risks for the next few hours are linked to the trees, laden with snow and, obviously, to the climate, which heralds new snowfalls.

Tree falls, road blocked

The Abetone and Brennero state highways are closed

the bad weather and in particular, snow continues to create significant traffic problems on the sections of the Apennines between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna. The Anas in fact communicates that due to the heavy snowfalls that occurred at this time, State Highway 12 of Abetone and Brenner it remains closed from km 85,500 to km 91,500, or between Fontana Vaccaia (Pistoia) and Faidello (Modena) on the regional border between Tuscany and Emilia.

Fratoni: “Urgent refreshments for the affected areas”

“The exceptional snowfall that has hit these days in the mountains of Pistoia and Lucca It is creating very strong discomfort to the population and, unfortunately, the weather forecasts do not promise anything good even for the next few hours, given the new alert also for tomorrow, Monday, January 4 ”. This was stated by the councilor of the Tuscany region of the Democratic Party, Federica Fratoni.

“That’s why I can only support the president’s initiative Eugenio Giani which communicated the request for the proclamation of the state of national emergency with the adoption of the consequent measures, including the relief of emergency sums for the municipalities affected by this violent snowfall and the activation of microcredits for local companies, but I believe it necessary to declare also the regional state of emergency “.

“In fact, the numerous interventions for cutting vegetation and shoveling snow for the restoration of viability are entailing extraordinary burdens that local administrations and operators, already doubled of the Covid-19 emergency, I can’t hold. For all these reasons – he concludes – I will be the promoter of a specific issue in the coming days and on which I hope the bipartisan support of all the councilors who have been elected in the schools of Pistoia and Lucca will arrive ”.

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