Damage from widespread
flooding in recent weeks has cost Italy's northern Piedmont
region 290 million euros, according to a report Friday.
The 90-page report accompanied the region's request to the
National Civil Protection Service for a declaration of a state
of emergency due to natural disaster, following heavy rains and
flooding between October 12-14 and again on November 14-15.
Those storms affected more than 250 towns in northwestern
Italy.
Inclement weather came back this week to pummel regions
across Italy.
In Liguria, the neighboring coastal region just south of
Piedmont, torrential rains which began on Thursday ended on
Friday morning without incident.
Authorities there called a Level 2 weather alert that
closed schools, public parks, and cemeteries in the region where
torrential rainfall and mudslides two weeks ago caused an
estimated 30 million euros in damages to agriculture alone.
Meanwhile, further south in the region of Lazio,
firefighters on Thursday rescued 50 people in Santa Marinella, a
seaside town outside of Rome, and train services on the FL5 rail
line were suspended due to flooding on the tracks between Santa
Marinella and the town of Santa Severa.
In Santa Marinella, people became trapped in their cars or
took refuge on the roofs of their homes after torrential
rainfall caused two creeks to burst their banks, flooding the
streets with a meter of water.
Just north of Lazio in the region of Tuscany, firefighters
rescued eight people who became trapped on farms on Thursday
after the Alma torrent burst its banks near the village of Pian
D'Alma.
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