The snow has already whitened the mountains , the flakes have returned to the Nuoro area above a thousand meters and are ready to make their appearance even at low altitudes .
The mountain villages – Fonni, Desulo, Gavoi, Ollolai, Aritzo, Seui and Tonara – have been mobilized and have organized themselves with a snow plan, both with their own means and through agreements with private companies. The objective is to avoid inconvenience in inhabited centres, in the countryside and on state and provincial roads: six years ago some towns were blocked for a week .
For this reason, yesterday the seven mayors, meeting in videoconference with the civil protection managers from Cagliari, took stock of the situation and discussed the new anti-snow vehicles to be purchased with the funding approved by the Region with the omnibus law: there are 72 thousand euros for each municipality .
"We met with the Civil Protection managers to understand how to manage the purchase of new vehicles based on the needs of each municipality - said the mayor of Fonni Daniela Falconi -. Funding which is welcome and which will allow us to equip ourselves with more agile means of clearing the roads especially in the upper parts of the country where heavy vehicles do not pass . We also took stock of this year's snow plan that each of our municipalities has organized in agreement with the Province, Anas and Forestas who will lend us a hand. In Fonni we have one of our vehicles on the track, old but operational, together with another one that the Forestas agency made available to us after the snowfall in 2017".
The mayor of Ollolai Michele Columbu is also "very happy" with the funding: "The region will also give my town a snow plow that we didn't have and that we've been waiting for for years. For this year we have organized ourselves with our own means and with private companies, but I think that from now on we can look more serenely to the next snowfalls, with the hope that the bureaucracy will have rapid times ».
Apart from the inconvenience it can cause, this year snow is seen as a godsend that brings with it essential water reserves after long periods of drought .
According to Air Force forecasts it will snow for the next five days, the flakes will soon arrive even in the low hills and in the most affected areas there will be 30 centimeters of snow .
(Unioneonline/L)