There is still a red alert for bad weather in some areas of Northern Italy, in particular Liguria and Piedmont. In Genoa today the schools were closed and in Piedmont, in the Cuneo area, the Tanaro river is overflowed. While the president of the Region Sergio Chiamparino said that he will ask for a state of emergency, at the moment (at 15 pm on Thursday) the Civil Protection has assured that there are no people involved: "At the moment there are no people involved, also thanks to the preventive action of the mayors which triggered a whole series of actions following the red alert for those territories”, explained the head of the Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio making a point of the situation in a press conference. In the meantime, he is also concerned about the level of the Po, which has risen by more than a meter and a half in just twenty-four hours: in Turin the river has overflowed, flooding the Murazzi.
PIEDMONT – “We will make the request for a state of disaster, starting with the Tanaro valley, where there are evacuated people, shops, factories and flooded fields. The damage is already evident, the situation is very critical", said the president of the Piedmont Region, Sergio Chiamparino, which is following the evolution of the very strong wave of bad weather in the operations room of the regional Civil Protection, in Turin. The most serious situation is in the province of Cuneo, in Val Tanaro and up to Mondovì. Due to the flooding, many roads were closed, such as the Colle di Nava state road 28, from Garessio to the border with Liguria, in the Bagnasco locality, where a ban on the transit of all vehicles near the river was instituted as a precaution. Tanaro.
LIGURIA – Some torrents in flood in Western Liguria e about ten families displaced as a precaution in the Savona area these are the first critical situations caused by the rain in Liguria. The rains, at times intense and at times weaker, particularly affected the hinterland of the province of Imperia and the Valbormida in the Savona area. The levels of the Argentina streams in the municipality of Montalto Ligure (Imperia) and Arroscia between the Imperia and Savonese regions are worrying, as they have exceeded the first ordinary flood threshold. Schools closed in Genoa, Savona, Sanremo, Imperia and Ventimiglia.
