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Storm Ciaran has brought Italy to its knees, as the central and northern regions are most affected by bad weather.
The situation in Tuscany is more critical, where five people have lost their lives and four others are missing.
The head of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani, announced the regional emergency describing the situation as very serious indeed.
"I spoke with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, they are taking measures to declare a state of national disaster in the Council of Ministers," he clarified through social networks. In Prato, a town near Florence where two elderly people died, Mayor Marco Biffoni said the damage caused by the storm was "shocking".
"It feels like someone punched you in the stomach. It makes you cry when you see this destruction", he said.
Meloni himself also reacted to the serious situation.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she is following with concern the evolution of the catastrophic events that have hit Tuscany in particular and expresses her deepest condolences to the victims, her staff and the entire Government.
Another casualty was claimed by the flooding of a nursing home in Rosignano, near the port city of Livorno, where winds of up to 120 km/h were recorded. Among the missing is also a firefighter who was off duty, but was helping his father to install sandbags, it seems that the water took him with him.
Schools are closed in Tuscany, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto. The governor of the region, Luca Zaia, warned residents not to travel. Milan and surrounding areas in the Lombardy region were hit by severe storms earlier this week, causing extensive damage there, as well as a dangerous rise in the water level of Lake Como.
This, at a time when the consequences of the May floods in Emilia-Romagna, where 14 people died and thousands were left homeless, have not yet been forgotten.
⚠️Le imagini sono chiare, non scendete en strada. Non circolate con l'auto, chi può raggiunga i piani alti delle case! pic.twitter.com/RGt6JqST6X
— Eugenio Giani (@EugenioGiani) November 2, 2023
Alert in La Spezia: waves six meters high
In the last 24 hours, very high rainfall has been measured in Liguria, between 150 and 200 mm across the interior of the province of Genoa. Winds continue to strengthen, reaching 142 km/h in Casoni di Suvero and 116 km/h in La Spezia. The intense storm on the coast of Liguria continues until tomorrow: waves with a significant height of 6.5 meters are currently recorded in La Spezia and a time interval between one peak and the other more than 11 seconds.
Milan, significant growth in Seveso and Lambro levels
Heavy and continuous rain now and this evening has sounded the alarm and is causing significant increases in Lambro and Seveso levels in Milan. This is what the adviser of the Civil Defense, Marco Granelli, has announced. "Thank God that tonight we decided to keep the Parco Lambro communities out again and that the Milan Seveso basin is ready to accept water if the levels continue to rise. Maximum attention", says Granelli.
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