It is not India with the monsoon calendar, nor are it the Philippines. This time the consequences of climate change with tropical rains In the middle of spring after months of drought, they devastated the center-north of Italy and the region of Emilia-Romagnathe most punished, being literally under water until canceling the Formula 1 GP.
A balance devastating with deaths, tens of thousands of evacuees, houses and cars floating, roads flooded and roads and infrastructure destroyed. An area known for its beaches, the good mood of the people, the cities of art and the good food, has been destroyed with the first relays that indicate that the agricultural sector is the most punished.
“We are in the presence of another earthquake with catastrophic events never recorded”, this is how the president of the region of Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bonacciniwhich cost the lives of nine people and more than 40,000 evacuees, a number that grows every hour, since the fall of water has not yet ended in the cities of the north-central part of the country such as: Forli, Cesena, Ravenna and Bologna.
The area affected by the catastrophe is a territory of industries and agricultural production of excellence in Italy. “There are 48 municipalities with large-scale landslides and 21 rivers overflowing at various points,” explained the president of the Region.
The landslides and landslides registered are more than 250 and, as he told bonaccinimany critical points are infrastructures that were “almost destroyed”, including the roads that will have to be rebuilt in the points affected by the strong storm.
Red alert
The floods also left large inhabited centers such as Cesena in critical condition, where it overflowed the river Savio, Forli, and above all Faenza. In this dramatic context, Civil Protection has issued a new red alert for possible flooding of rivers and streams throughout today, such as the case of Bologna, where citizens were asked not to leave their homes and only travel with urgent character.
For their part, classes continue to be suspended in all schools in the large affected area, where companies and institutions were also asked to only carry out remote work to reduce travel and traffic -who still have the power supply interrupted in part of area-.
There is more than 700 men already active in the horror zone and 100 vehicles for the rescue of people, planes and specialized helicopters for the rescue from the sky, to alleviate this emergency.
State of emergency
From Civil Protection it was announced that it will be declared a “State of Emergency”. The proposal is to bring to the Council of Ministers a special resource available to the Emilia Romagna region of 20 million euros, a figure that will help to face the disasters caused by heavy rains and long periods of drought and in turn carry out a rereading of the territory .
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Suspension of bank credits
For her part, the Premier Giorgia Meloni from Japan -the country to which he traveled to participate in the G7 meeting- stated that “the priority is the rescue of the population and the recovery of normal life in the area with support for companies and the suspension of bank loans ”.
The Council of Ministers will meet next Tuesday, and a provision is expected to help the populations affected by bad weather with which “payment and compliance terms will be suspended, both for individuals and for more complex structures such as capitals and legal entities”, announced the Vice Minister of Economy, Maurizio Leo where now all hope is placed on the improvement of the weather.
Source: Ambito
