Damages in the billions and red alert continue to scourge theEmilia Romagnahard hit byflood. While solidarity is triggered and the number of fundraising in support of the population, the emergency does not stop: there are still vast areas under water, landslides are bringing the Apennines to their knees and the red weather alert is also confirmed for tomorrow. The bad weather is also extending to Piedmont where tomorrow, Sunday 21 May, there is an orange alert.
They are 14 victims make sure, further 15.000 displaced people. Assistance interventions for the population continue 24 hours a day and 24 citizens have already found hospitality in hotels and in the structures set up by the Municipalities in gyms, sports halls and schools.
The premier Giorgia Meloni it will return earlier than expected by the G7 in Japan and is expected as early as Sunday afternoon, in the afternoon, in Emilia-Romagna for an inspection of the areas affected by the flood. The prime minister will leave Japan in the evening, in advance of the work of the G7 which will also continue on Sunday, to land tomorrow in the early afternoon in Italy. The program is still being defined, also linked to weather conditions.
The weather alert extends to Piedmont and upper Tuscany
Extends the orange alert in Piemonte. The latest bulletin from Arpa (Regional Agency for Environmental Protection) includes all the valleys in the provinces of Cuneo and Turin and the Cuneo-Turin plain. The other areas are in yellow, with only the northernmost part of Piedmont excluded from the alert, in the Toce river basin, and the Valle Scrivia, in the Alessandria area, to the south.
The rains of the last 24 hours "continue to aggravate the saturation of the soil" in the Upper Mugello: for this reason the Civil Protection of the metropolitan city of Florence renews its invitation to "avoid travel and not reach the Apennine areas". The entire population involved, adds the Civil Protection, "albeit in the presence of many inconveniences, is collaborating with the authorities, demonstrating a great sense of responsibility". There are about 500 people in the isolated hamlets, therefore reachable only by emergency vehicles.
