Violent storm in Catania where it has been raining heavily for several hours. An intense foothills that flooded the city causing very strong inconvenience to citizens especially to motorists who found themselves driving in flooding rivers. Right now Via Etnea looks like a real river in flood, with the water flowing through the streets of the city. As well as the ring road went haywire with the water reaching and passing the sidewalks, car broken down or forced to slow down. Many, due to the water reaching the counter, preferred to abandon the car and some also took refuge in our office in Viale Odorico da Pordenone.
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Via Etnea transformed into a river and Piazza Duomo into a lake. Flooded the historic Pescheria market and also invaded the fountain from where the subterranean Amenano river emerges for a while. To aggravate the situation also the rainwater that pours into the city from the Etna villages and arrives copiously on Catania and an electric blackout that affects the historic center and which also affected the Town Hall.
Due to heavy rainfall, the Tangenziale Ovest of Catania is temporarily closed to traffic, towards Messina, at km 3,200. The motorway site is flooded at Gravina di Catania. In the direction of Syracuse, traffic has slowed down considerably. This was announced by the Anas that on the spot has maintenance teams at work to restore circulation in the shortest possible time.
A strong storm that is bringing you to your knees the city with dozens of calls to the Fire Brigade for floods, landslides, cars in difficulty. Families and motorists were rescued by the regional civil protection and voluntary associations due to a storm that is hitting the city and the province.
Some streets have been transformed into streams, also due to the accumulation of rainwater that pours into the city from the Etna villages. The areas most affected are those south of the Etna capital. Floods are recorded to the village of Santa Maria Goretti, adjacent to the airport, in the industrial area and in the seaside areas of Plaia and Vaccarizzo. The state road 114, which connects Catania and Syracuse, also invades.
In Mascali, in the Fondachello district, some roads have been closed and some motorists have been rescued. The firefighters of Catania have, so far, carried out 214 interventions, moving 429 operators. In detail, they rescued a total of 61 people, carried out 91 interventions for water damage or static instability and 31 for the removal of trees or unsafe parts.
In Misterbianco, due to the landslide of mud and debris from Monte Cardillo, four families were evacuated. The only connecting road has been cleared, but as a precaution the inhabitants have left their homes, while the area is constantly monitored by civil protection volunteers.
Heavy rains and thunderstorms since Sunday they hit all over Sicily and more than 200 interventions by the Fire Brigade were necessary in Catania alone. Rains that have put the agricultural sector in great difficulty.
The prefect of Catania, Maria Carmela Librizzi, has convened a meeting at Palazzo Minoriti for 16.30 today to make “a point on the situation that has arisen due to the exceptional wave of bad weather that has been affecting the provincial territory since last Sunday and that it should also continue in the next few days ». The mayors of Catania and the municipalities most affected by the weather, the leaders of the police forces, the commander of the harbor master’s office, the provincial commander were invited to the meeting, which will be attended by the general manager of the regional Department of Civil Protection. of the firefighters, the leaders of the detachment and of the section of the polstrada, the leader of the border police, the army, the ASP, the ENAC, Rfi and Enel
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