Sardinia went under water today, many places that have suffered damage due to the abundant rainfall. And a tragedy occurred in Sant'Anna Arresi where a pensioner, as soon as he got out of the car, was carried away by the current. His body was found in the afternoon after intense searches by the fire brigade, civil defense and carabinieri, almost on the border with the Capo Teulada shooting range, which borders the Porto Pino beach.
Antonio Cinus, the victim, was from Sant'Anna Arresi. "There was a sea of water", confirmed the mayor Anna Maria Teresa Diana.
Fear also for some hunters, who went out for a hunt despite the bad weather, and who were recovered in the areas of Sarroch and Villa San Pietro .
In Siliqua, a house has partially collapsed and the occupants - two elderly people and their son - have been moved elsewhere.
Among the most affected areas there is also the Cagliaritano, especially Cagliari and Pirri in particular.
In the city, the mayor Paolo Truzzu has ordered, for tomorrow, the closure of "all school buildings owned by the Municipality and the Metropolitan City located in the Cagliari area", including nursery schools, and also parks, sports facilities, libraries and museums. Furthermore, schools closed in Selargius and Maracalagonis .
VIABILITY - A chasm has opened on the provincial road 18, in the territory of Castiadas . The circulation was closed by the carabinieri at km 23. Someone noticed what had happened and immediately alerted the military. Due to the asphalt covered with water, a car crashed into the guard rail on the Nuova Orientale Sarda. The dynamics of the accident were terrible, but the driver was not injured.
In Santadi , on the provincial road 70, it has yielded part of the road surface on the small bridge that connects the town with Teulada.
In Cagliari, confirmed by the weather service of the Air Force at the Decimomannu base, “101 mm of rain fell and in Capoterra 110, so we can say that the historical averages of the month, which are around 67/68 mm, have been significantly exceeded”.
Today's problems were determined by the transit of the perturbation called Blas, “whose center was found to pass on the south of Sardinia crossing the Gulf of Cagliari and the proximity to our island meant that these intense storm clouds appeared. Now the minimum depression has passed Sardinia, towards the Tyrrhenian Sea, and then will come back across the Gulf of Genoa. In particular on the Tyrrhenian Sea it could assume the features of a small tropical Mediterranean cyclone ".
FORECASTS - In the coming days, according to the forecasts of the Air Force, new western currents will arrive on the island that will bring other clouds: "Tomorrow, starting from the morning, there will be rainfall on the western and south western sectors, with a situation that will worsen in Sulcis and in the western part of Campidano. Then on Tuesday the disturbance will also move to the eastern part until Wednesday, while an improvement will only occur from Thursday ".
THE DAMAGES - The latest Coldiretti monitoring on the damage caused by bad weather speaks of "underwater land, destroyed crops, entire crops of lost artichokes, uninhabitable rural roads and isolated farms". Among the most affected regions, in addition to Sardinia, there are Lazio, Tuscany, Liguria and Puglia. "The result - underlines Coldiretti - is an account of damages equal to over 2 billion euros in 2021, including losses of national agricultural production and damage to structures and infrastructures in the countryside. In fact, in many cases, the loss of the seasonal harvest is added to damage destined to last over time as for fruit plants uprooted by the fury of the waters for which it will take years before they can return to produce ".
"To pay a heavy bill in autumn - it is emphasized - is agriculture with the final phase of the harvest and the beginning of the olive harvest while the autumn vegetables are ripe in the land and it is necessary to carry out the traditional spring sowing hindered by bad weather. dramatic situation that raises the toll of damage caused to agriculture in a 2021 that marks the record of extreme events in Italy since the surveys began with 1914 between storms, tornadoes, wind storms, hailstorms, heat waves and of extreme frost recorded up to now up by 45% compared to the same period last year ".
(Unioneonline / ss)
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THE RECOVERY OF THE VICTIM:
THE WATER BOMB IN THE LOWER SULCIS:
Capoterra: soccorso cacciatore in difficoltà
PICTURES:
Strade allagate nel Sud Sardegna