Italy saw over 30 extreme-weather
events this weekend, bringing to over 6 billion euros the damage
to crops and farms caused this year across the country, farm
group Coldiretti said Monday.
Thunderstorms, hurricanes and hailstorms swept across the
country this weekend, Coldiretti said, flooding fields and
stores, uprooting trees, destroying greenhouses, and ruining
crops.
The worst destruction was wreaked in Sicily, Calabria, Puglia
and Lazio, the farmers said.
The damage to the rich farming land of the Salento area of
Puglia was huge, Coldiretti said.
But there was also damage further north and in Tuscany Monday
the state highway between Prato and Pistoia was closed for
flooding.
Some 20 centimeters of snow fell in Cortina in the Dolomites.
Venice was again saved from flooding by its MOSE barriers.
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