Syracuse (Ansa)
Bad weather in Sicily: rainy night, but Apollo depowered moves away from the island
Bad weather.
Strong storm in the Catania area.
A man dies overwhelmed by water
Bad weather in Catania, the prefect asks for the intervention of the Army
Bad weather: waiting for the 'Medicane', Catania is barricaded
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October 31, 2021 Today yellow alert for bad weather in four regions of Italy: Basilicata, Calabria, Sardinia and Sicily.
And while the bad weather front in the South seems to close with the removal of Cyclone Apollo, there is the risk of another opening in the North, with the arrival today of the Poppea perturbation: the Halloween storm will bring rains to Val d'Aosta, Piedmont and Liguria.
He sinks with the car in the water, he is saved by swimming
He sank in his car and sends Ascari, one of the first arteries that had been closed due to flooding in Syracuse, and managed to get to safety by swimming as far as he could touch with his feet. The alertness avoided the tragedy last night. The Syracusan, driving an SUV, was on his way to work in a company in the industrial area. That artery has been banned from circulation for several days, but from the driver's first statements, it seems that the barriers had been moved. Civil Defense personnel and firefighters removed the car.
Collapsed building in Syracuse
In Carlentini, in the province of Syracuse, an uninhabited house in the center collapsed last night.
Accomplice of the collapse, which buried two cars, the bad weather of the last hours.
Debris on the road.
No harm to people.
Firefighters intervened on the spot.
In the Catanese
state road 116
reopened State
road 116 "Randazzo-Capo d'Orlando" in Catanese, near the Alcantara bridge,
reopened
to traffic during the night.
The circulation takes place in alternating one-way managed by a traffic light system.
The state road had been closed due to the bad weather that hit Eastern Sicily in the past few hours.