Some of the worst hit areas in the Emilia-Romagna region were drenched by half their average annual rainfall in under two days.
not to leave their homes except for “serious emergencies” and said all schools for all age groups would be closed Thursday.
Italy’s Civil Protection Minister Nello Musemeci said at a briefing Wednesday that two dozen towns had been flooded and that widespread evacuations were underway. He also called for a new national plan for dealing with floods and landslides as Italy increasingly deals with tropical weather, where lengthy droughts are followed by intense rain., “And what has happened in these hours is evidence of that.
Musemeci said 5,000 people had been evacuated and about 50,000 had no power, while over 100,000 did not have the use of cell phones or landlines.and northwestern Bosnia, where a state of emergency has been declared. “We have an apocalypse,” Armin Halitovic, mayor of the town of Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia, told the N1 TV channel. “We can no longer count the flooded buildings. It’s never been like this.
Landslides were also reported in eastern Slovenia, while soldiers and emergency crews were dispatched in Croatia to take supplies to people stranded in their homes by flooding.
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