Earth Watch Report - Flooding
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rains continued to lash central and northern Italy on Friday, causing
flash flooding, landslides, disruption to transport and the evacuation
of over 1,000 people. The president of the Lazio region surrounding
Rome, Nicola Zinagaretti said was deciding whether to declare a state of
emergency. In the capital, emergency services received some 3,000
calls, as people were forced to climb into the roofs of their homes and
cars in some areas as up to 130 millimetres of rain fell in a matter of
hours. A heavily pregnant woman who went into labour had to be taken to
hospital in a dinghy, while six homeless people including Roma Gypsies
and other immigrants were rescued from makeshift huts in an area of the
city not far from the Vatican after a mudslide engulfed their makeshift
huts. Northern neighbourhoods in the Italian capital were flooded and
authorities were monitoring the Tiber river, at risk of overflowing.
Several roads and metro stations had to be closed and and mud and
detritus cause a train to derail between Rome and Viterbo. Weather
alerts were also issued in Tuscany, 1,000 people were evacuated in the
province of Pisa and the city itself was partly flooded, forcing
emergency workers to erect barriers and reinforce banks to channel water
to the sea. In the town of Volterra a 30-metre section of medieval
walls collapsed. In Florence, the river Arno was reported to be at a
20-year high although the city's mayor Matteo Renzi said the river was
not in danger of bursting its banks. Small towns outside Florence and
nearby Prato were virtually surrounded by rising flood water as schools
closed for the day. In the lagoon city of Venice, exceptionally high
tides were expected to submerge half the city at around midnight. Across
the Adriatic in Serbia, dozens of people remained stranded in snow and
rescue teams were struggling to reach those trapped on a 30-kilometre
stretch of road some 60 kilometres north of Belgrade after gale force
winds formed four-metre-high snowdrifts on the road, emergency services
said. |
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Italy: Flash floods and landslides hit centre and north amid torrential rain
last update: January 31, 19:00
Rome,
31 January (AKI) - Heavy rains continued to lash central and northern
Italy on Friday, causing flash flooding, landslides, disruption to
transport and the evacuation of over 1,000 people.
The president
of the Lazio region surrounding Rome, Nicola Zinagaretti said was
deciding whether to declare a state of emergency.
In the capital,
emergency services received some 3,000 calls, as people were forced to
climb into the roofs of their homes and cars in some areas as up to 130
millimetres of rain fell in a matter of hours.
A heavily pregnant
woman who went into labour had to be taken to hospital in a dinghy,
while six homeless people including Roma Gypsies and other immigrants
were rescued from makeshift huts in an area of the city not far from the
Vatican after a mudslide engulfed their makeshift huts.
Northern
neighbourhoods in the Italian capital were flooded and authorities were
monitoring the Tiber river, at risk of overflowing. Several roads and
metro stations had to be closed and and mud and detritus cause a train
to derail between Rome and Viterbo.
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