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November 11, 2021 Situation at risk and serious inconvenience between Sciacca, Menfi, Mazara del Vallo and in the Corleonese area due to bad weather that hit western Sicily since yesterday afternoon. Numerous fire brigade teams and civil protection volunteers are busy rescuing motorists and residents trapped by the floods. In Sciacca, two motorists to allow themselves to safety climbed onto the roof of the car.

The road they were traveling on has been turned into a river. The firefighters also intervened with a rubber dinghy in Menfi, in the Lido dei Fiori area, to rescue some residents, including two elderly people stranded in their house invaded by water. Altogether 22 families were rescued. Debris and mud have invaded and made the roads impassable, such as state highway 188 between Palazzo Adriano and Prizzi. The dewatering pumps worked all night to try to free roads and houses from the water also in Sambuca di Sicilia, Favara and Campobello di Mazara.

"Do not leave the house. The condition is of great risk", is the appeal launched to the citizens by the prefect of Agrigento Maria Rita Cocciufa. "The Mediterranean vortex, at the moment, is discharging into the sea, but it is very close to the northern area of ​​the Agrigento area - he says - The wave of strong bad weather is affecting the northern area of ​​the province. There are important critical issues in Sciacca, Menfi, Ribera and in the smaller municipalities of the district. There are emergency situations and the evacuation of citizens who have had damage or who are at risk is looming. More streams have overflowed and we are really on alert. From the information in my possession, with good chance, even if we are talking about unpredictable weather conditions, this wave of bad weather is getting closer to the Agrigento area.I launch a heartfelt appeal to all the people of Agrigento, all indistinctly, residing in every town: do not get in the car and do not leave the house. Absolutely do not leave the house, the condition is of great, very great risk ".

A cyclonic vortex located for several days near the Balearic Islands does not want to move from those areas, making many regions affected by heavy rains breathe a sigh of relief. As if that were not enough during the weekend the vortex will be 'hooked' by a disturbed impulse coming from France and which will send a disturbance. This was explained by Andrea Garbinato, editor of the site 'www.iLMeteo.it', warning that until Friday the rains will still affect Sicily widely, but will also wet internal Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, locally Sardinia and then Calabria. and Campania, while in the rest of Italy the weather will be drier and even more and more sunny in the Northeast and in Lombardy. Over the course of the weekend a new deterioration will begin to affect theItaly starting on Saturday evening when a disturbance will begin to rain in the North. Some rains may still affect Lazio and irregular rainfall in the southern regions.