The mistral winds caused extensive damage to numerous businesses in the Nuoro and Ogliastra regions. Warehouses were ripped off, sheds and fences torn off, machinery damaged, photovoltaic systems torn away like leaves: the toll is devastating.
The olive and cork oak sectors were severely affected, with serious repercussions also on forests, trees, and firewood due to trees broken or uprooted by the fury of the winds.
This is extremely serious damage that puts current and future production at risk. But other crops and production sectors have fared no better, in a context already severely affected by weeks of severe weather, with heavy and continuous rains that had weakened plants, structures, and soil.
Wind gusts exceeded 130 kilometers per hour and caused extensive damage not only in residential areas but especially in the countryside, where numerous businesses were cut off by fallen trees along rural and provincial roads, effectively making them unreachable.
"We are facing yet another exceptional weather event that is severely impacting our farms," emphasizes Coldiretti Nuoro-Ogliastra President Leonardo Salis. "We are currently collecting reports, assessing the critical issues, and ensuring we are providing the utmost support to the affected farms and communities. No one should be left alone."
Director Alessandro Serra echoes this sentiment, emphasizing that "beyond the immediate damage to structures, there is significant concern about the future economic impact. Companies will have to sustain extremely high costs to restore warehouses, plants, and infrastructure, with inevitable slowdowns in production and repercussions on the workforce and employment." He concludes, "A mature institutional system is needed, capable of responding rapidly in emergencies but also of building a structured, long-term path, so that companies are not left alone and can receive concrete and timely responses."
(Unioneonline)
