Ravenna, May 23, 2023 – The continuous noise of the shovels shovel mud does not shut up, also because now he risks becoming hard as cement. But today the focus is on what will be said in Rome: Giorgia Meloni and his government will launch an initial package of 400 million for Emilia Romagna (here exclusively the draft of the Romagna decree).
Jointly, the suspension of mortgages and the division of tax charges for a whole will be decreed. series of municipalities (here the list) which will fall into the ‘crater’, as was done for the 2012 earthquake.
Meanwhile, this morning shortly before 6, on the A14 Bologna-Taranto, it was reopened the section between Faenza and Forlì (information about trains and other roads) making all available lanes passable in both directions.
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The entertainment world is also mobilized: the August 5 at the Imola racecourse singers and athletes will meet for the victims. But meanwhile the judiciary is also working, which is also investigating in Ravenna for guilty disaster.
Even today, for the eighth day in a row, theWeather alert is fixed in red.
The hundreds of landslides that still isolate entire hamlets are also worrying: in Bologna it was necessary reopen a disused section of the old A1. There are moments of tension, such as those experienced yesterday in advice where the citizens tried to break the embankment to lower the water level, still at half a leg.
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A14, section reopened | Shortly before 6 in the morning, on the A14, the section between Faenza and Forlì was reopened, leaving all the available lanes in both directions passable. “An important step for the return to normality in our Region, both for the daily life of the inhabitants and for the full recovery of economic activity,” says Galeazzo Bignami, Fratelli d’Italia Vice Minister of Infrastructure and Transport |
| 9:38 | Schools in difficulty | There are 105 state school complexes affected by the effects of the flood, 49 educational institutions that have reported criticalities for the restart of teaching activities, 58 that have reported criticalities for transit and transportation, 44 that have reported destination of part of premises for displaced persons. It is a first estimate from the Emilia-Romagna school office. In Romagna, several institutes have not yet resumed the lessons. |
| 10 a.m. | government commitment | “Head, heart and commitment of all government ministers throughout Italy in these hours for the populations of Emilia Romagna and also parts of Tuscany and Marche affected by mud and water. We are working to find the maximum money and on everything to prevent it from happening again in the future. And therefore it is necessary to secure the country by doing everything that has not been done in the past: dams, lakes, reservoirs, protection of the banks, removing the wood, the trees, the bushes, the trunks of the banks of streams, rivers, care of the forests, dredging of ports and waterways because if we don’t and we can’t, we don’t do it, we lose human lives”, said the Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation Mateo Salvini . |
| 10:47 | Municipalities still under water | Some Romagna municipalities are still flooded, such as Conselice, where a heated protest by residents began yesterday. The installation of the pumps that have been in operation for days to relieve the pressure of the Reno Right Canal and the Zaniolo Canal continues: there are 42 pumps that move 210,000 liters of water per minute,” writes the Municipality on Facebook. |
| 11am | The number of dead and missing | Fifteen victims of the flood in Emilia Romagna, of which 7 in the Ravenna area. Yesterday the woman found dead last Thursday in her house in Sant’Agata sul Santerno was identified: she is Neride Pollini, 92 years old. To the sad provisional balance we must add the report of a missing person in Boncellino |
| 11:14 | The Cdm by the Romagna Decree | Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has just arrived at the Chigi Palace for the CDM on measures relating to flooding. |
