Landslides, flooding, roads invaded by water and mud. Italy is in the grip of bad weather with the most critical situation, in the last few hours, in Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy and Lazio .
Dozens of calls to the fire brigade during the night in Genoa , where 10 elderly residents of a nursing home were displaced and taken to hospital as a precaution .
In western Liguria , where the orange alert is in force, the bad weather brought several landslides and mudslides during the night and in the early hours of today with several homes left isolated. The Aurelia at Capo Noli in the Savona area was also interrupted due to a landslide.
However, there are around thirty provincial roads (and one state road) closed in Piedmont due to the strong risk of avalanches or landslides and flooding of small watercourses . In the Turin area, the civil protection and the staff of the Municipality of Noasca turned back dozens of motorists who today still attempted to reach Ceresole Reale, in the Orco valley, buried in snow. Right on the Graian Alps, 60-70 centimeters of fresh snow accumulated in just a few hours .
The emergency also continues in Lombardy , where hundreds of firefighters intervened in the morning due to heavy damage from torrential rain and strong winds , and also in Lazio , which extended the yellow alert for another 18-24 hours.
In Porto Mantovano in the early afternoon there was a tornado , the gusts of wind uncovered several houses and warehouses.
In the hinterland of the province of Imperia four ski mountaineers were swept away by an avalanche in Monesi. One is dead . The 44-year-old, rescued, had been transferred in code red by helicopter to the Santa Corona hospital in Pietra Ligure.
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(Unioneonline/vl)