Water bomb (and hail) on Forlì: the streets changed into torrents

In a number of dozen minutes Forlì discovered itself below a really violent rain blended with hail, which additionally decreased visibility. It was estimated that the depth of precipitation reached a mean of virtually 300 millimeters per hour. Beneath this bombardment, a number of roads remodeled into torrents in only a few minutes. Some motorists in transit had been left caught of their vehicles surrounded by water, whereas a number of underpasses the place the water was dangerously rising had been shortly closed off.

In the mean time there have been no accidents or accidents reported. The storm was accompanied by sturdy gusts of wind that reached 80 kilometers, inflicting a number of timber and enormous branches to fall to the bottom. Rescue and clean-up interventions by the firefighters and legislation enforcement companies started already through the storm and afterwards. The town then progressively returned to normality. The harm depend is but to be estimated.