- Piedmont, river Po in full. Water reaches the homes
- Bad weather Piedmont: Po above guard threshold, flooded Murazzi. Cardè underwater. Bormida, a missing person
- Bad weather: difficult night in the Savona area, Basque river flood. Still displaced
- Pavia, flood Ticino into a district of the city
Share
November 25, 2019 "No victims for the collapse of the viaduct on the A6 motorway, swept away by the landslide. The serenity is back in Liguria, now let's roll up our sleeves". This morning the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, writes this about his social profiles. We have worked incessantly on the landslide site to look for feedback on the signaling of a car that could have fallen due to the collapse of yesterday afternoon. No feedback has been found so far. Yesterday, special vehicles arrived from other regions, Piedmont and Tuscany, as well as the use of dog units. Meanwhile, in Savona, the meeting with the local authorities, the governor Toti himself and the Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Paola De Micheli. "The state of emergency will intervene as soon as possible," said Ligurian governor Giovanni Toti after the prefecture meeting in Savona with Infrastructure Minister Paola De Micheli."The Liguria Region reiterated the need to extend the state of emergency as soon as possible to the new territories affected by bad weather, including the collapse of the viaduct, but not only because many roads have been interrupted", stressed the president of the Region Toti. "I imagine that all this will be addressed in the next Council of Ministers - continues Toti -. The motorway concessionaire is examining the remaining section of the A6 in the possibility of giving at least a partial reopening to the motorway section. Just as the president of the province of Savona is coordinating interventions to remove Val Bormida from isolation, these are the urgent needs at the moment ".
De Micheli: "Viaduct reopens only if there is maximum security"
"The technicians are checking for any new landslides and the effects on the other viaduct, which will naturally be re-opened only with maximum safety". Infrastructure minister Paola De Micheli said this after a summit in the Prefecture in Savona with governor Giovanni Toti after the collapse of the motorway viaduct. "A minute after getting out of this emergency, we must give Liguria the utmost willingness for an extraordinary plan for infrastructure safety, because the events of the last few years speak of known but also unknown fragility," the minister added.
This time only x miracle ... #viadotto #Autostrade pic.twitter.com/1mwHHvAdHg
- ROBYLUM (@robylum) November 24, 2019Ponte Morandi Victims Committee: "The government protects Italy"
"By pure chance and by immense fortune no other innocent people have died, and there are no other relatives sunk in grief; citizens must be protected. We want a serious commitment from our Government and Parliament so that our country is secured and every trip does not become a Russian roulette ". He asked the Egle Possetti government, president of the Committee, remember victims of the Moranti bridge. "For us yesterday it was like going back 15 months and left us once again breathless," he adds.
Costa: we open construction sites no one is safe
"It is time to open the thousand sites for the safety of the territory, Parliament quickly approves the plan". To say it is the Environment Minister Sergio Costa, in an interview with "Il Messaggero", in which he returns to highlight "the endemic fragility of Italy: 79% of the territory is at risk for hydrogeological instability. None, unfortunately, it can be said to be safe in our country, for this we must do soon. We have worked on a bill, approved by the Council of Ministers and by the Conference of the regions unanimously and scheduled in the Senate: with 'Cantiere Ambiente' we further reduce the times for the opening of construction sites, we support the municipalities with a task force of technicians, we anticipate the expenditure for the design ", underlines Costa. "Parliament, however, must hurry up to approve it, it is important".
Confindustria: 60 billion for construction sites
"With Germany in difficulty, the economy of the North slowing down and the South in recession, we are asking for an anti-cyclical infrastructure operation that is worth over 60 billion resources, all already allocated. We need to start works, create jobs, connect territories, include people. It is the great priority of the country to be faced with a clear schedule and streamlining procedures. Enough with biblical times to open construction sites ". Thus, in an interview with Repubblica, the president of Confindustria Vincenzo Boccia, according to which with those resources it is possible to "restore the territory".
Cirio, "Government to start the construction sites"
Piedmont needs the government, instead of making articles in the newspapers, to start building sites for real. It is not a problem of money, but of bureaucracy, which primarily involves the Ministry of the Environment. The main tragedy is that today we have mayors who cannot even clean the rivers ". This is how the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio.
The video of the Fire Department with aerial images
Pavia, flood Ticino into a district of the city
He criticizes the situation of the rivers in the province of Pavia following the wave of bad weather in recent days. During the last night Ticino is flooded in the Borgo Basso district, in Pavia: the water has risen for a few centimeters in via Milazzo, the road that overlooks the river. This morning, civil protection workers and city officials helped residents of the area to leave their homes.
Abyss on the Turin-Piacenza, auto avoids it
A ten-meter chasm opened this evening on the A21 Torino-Piacenza motorway, between Asti and Villanova. A car in transit at that moment managed to avoid it by a whisker. The land, according to a first reconstruction, collapsed due to the incessant rain that has been falling for days all over Piedmont. The motorway is closed in both directions. For those who operate from Piacenza in the direction of Turin, the mandatory exit is Asti Ovest, while for those coming from the Piedmontese capital to Piacenza, the mandatory exit is Villanova.
Discomforts everywhere
A thousand isolated people in the Aosta Valley because of the avalanches that led to the closure of some roads; special observed rivers in Piedmont while the Po floods the Murazzi in Turin; still inconveniences in the Savona area, but also problems in Rome, with various floods also on the coast, and in Calabria. Bad weather still rages on different regions and causes numerous problems and inconveniences .
The flood of the Po exceeds the high criticality threshold
The flood of the Po river has exceeded the threshold of high criticality in Valle di Torino. This was announced by the AIPO, the Interregional Agency for the Po river, according to which the ridge will pass through the Piedmontese section to reach Ponte Becca, in the Pavia area , within the next 24 hours. Levels of growth across the entire river. Aipo recommends the utmost caution near the areas facing the rivers and flood plains, which may flood.
Avalanches in Valle D'Aosta, isolated centers
There are about a thousand people isolated in the Valle d'Aosta due to the avalanches that led to the closure of some regional roads. The most critical situations in the Lys valley, where Gressoney-La-Trinité is isolated due to the landslides that loom over the region. In the whole Region, the weather alert is orange.
Como, flood lake at Piazza Cavour
Lake Como is flooded and the water has invaded the area surrounding Piazza Cavour. The Municipality of Como makes it known. Local police, civil defense and the Networks sector have arranged to position the pedestrian walkways to cross the lakefront and safety cones in front of the drains of the sidewalk on the lake. The breakwater and the former ticket office have been closed. A Civil Protection team will be in Piazza Cavour to monitor the situation. On the lake, however, the rain continues to fall and shows no sign of stopping.