more damage than bad weather. As expected, on the night of Wednesday May 24 strong storms they hit everything lombardy, particularly in the Brescia area. Rain, hail, strong winds, thunder and lightning fell Brescia and provinceprovoking flood AND landslides.
Flooded underpasses in Brescia
TO Brescia in a few minutes from the afternoon Rainy dayscausing damage and flooding. As reported by the brescia newspaperin half an hour the fire operations center received more than 50 calls for various interventions.
The local police have closed to traffic five underpasses remaining citizens flooded even with a meter of water. In one case, two people were rescued and pulled from the stranded car.
Bad weather, the situation in Brescia
Streets like rivers in different areas of the city, in Sant’Eufemia, San Polo, in the area of ​​Via Milano and in via Corsica, where it is overflowed the egret. The Municipality reports that many manhole covers have been opened to facilitate the outflow of water, especially in the center.
check in floods also in some schools, as long as there are no interruptions in the metro. At the moment there are no reports of injured people. alerted on Civil protectionwith volunteers working with drainage pumps.
In Rezzato the bank collapses, the cars end up in the canal
Damages due to bad weather also in the province. TO rezzed due to heavy rains the embankment of the Naviglio Grande has been sold. Someone car parked in a square in front of a shopping area in via Garibaldi are like this submerged in the gravel of the watercourse.
luckily there was no no one on board when the canal bank collapsed. Local Police and Firefighters came to the scene and proceeded to cordon off the area.
Damage in the Garza Valley to Nave and Caino
Among the areas most affected by the wave of bad weather that hit Bresciano is the Garza Valley. TO Ship He Listrea torrent is overflowing at various points, causing flooding in various streets in the town, including the Caffaro provincial road. The atrium of the parish church was also flooded.
problems also a Cain for one landslide: to embankment gave way accident dumping several cubic meters of earth on the Caffaro provincial road, causing many inconveniences for traffic.
There Province makes it known that for the moment the situation is under control, teams of volunteers are active in support of the firefighters and ready to intervene in case of worsening. The most affected areas are currently Concesio, Brescia, Caino, Nave and Rezzato.
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