The emergency is now under control.
The Belbo river remained in its argins this time, and it’s not raining anymore.
And we have enough supplies to last a week without going to the supermarket (that’s five miles away).
The weather did hit hard both north and south of where we live – there were no victims, but lots of damage. People were evacuated from towns, areas were flooded, and in the very center of Turin we lost two river boats that used to do the tourist run in summer.
As a side note, the line of submerged lamp-posts at round minute 2:10 in the video is a place where I used to go walking with my girlfriend at the time of university.
Anyway, situation almost back to normal, there’s a lot of work to be done because in the past two days we had other things keeping us busy (like, taking books and electronics upstairs just in case – and today back to the ground floor again).
27 November 2016 at 11:22
Glad to know that you’re OK; I lived in Turin a lot of years ago and it hurts me big time to see this kind of disasters.
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27 November 2016 at 17:25
It is not the first time that the Po levees are flooded, but what happened with the two boats and the bridge is unprecedented.
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27 November 2016 at 16:19
Glad you are safe! I have some friends both in Piedmont and Liguria and these were tense days. Luckily it seems like it’s over now.
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27 November 2016 at 17:26
It’s over – until the next time.
Much has been done since 1994, when the floods actually killed people, but lots remains to be done.
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27 November 2016 at 17:28
For sure. River floods are something that are not to be taken lightly.
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28 November 2016 at 02:41
I’m glad you’re not underwater. Hard to write in scuba gear.
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28 November 2016 at 14:43
Indeed, it would be the sort of challenge I’d rather not take 😉
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