A total of 15 people fell victims of the weather in Italy within the past days.
Just this week four people died, two in Alto Adige, the region neighbouring Germany, and two in Aosta, near France’s border.
An 81-year-old man died after he fell from the roof of a hut he was repairing after the damages caused by the bad weather.
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A 53-year-old man was killed by a tree that hit his car.
The two other victims also died after a tree fell on the car they were travelling in.
And the bad weather is not going to give a rest to the ravaged country any time soon, according to weather forecasts showing incessant rains and thunderstorms coming in the next days.
The civil protection has issued red alerts in Veneto, Venice’s region, which in the last days was submerged by the waters of the canal, swamped by the violent rains, flooding homes and shops.
Orange warning for storms were issued in 12 Italian regions out of 22, including Tuscany and Lazio, regions were are situated, respectively, Florence and Rome.
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But the areas which suffered the most are all located in northern Italy.
In Bergamo, a city in the rich region of Lombardy, the public prosecutor’s office launched an investigation against unknown people to assess if the series of landslides that hit the nearby town of Vilminore di Scalve “cutting it to slices”, as said in local reports, could have been avoided.
And more misery piled up for people living in the iconic Riviera in Liguria, Genoa’s region, where the airport had to be shut down after rocks and flooded debris crowded its runways.
Liguria’s president, Giovanni Toti, asked the government to declare a state of emergency, saying the weather caused thousands of millions of euro in damages.
The seaside city of Rapallo is still removing the dozens of large boats sunk after the collapse of the barriers of the Carlo Riva harbour.
Nearby Santa Margherita estimated that it will cost 20 million to make up for the damages which hit its public harbour.
And Portofino, which every year receives thousands of tourists, remained isolated following the collapse of the road overlooking the sea.
This devastating weather will also have long-lasting consequences on the environment.
One of Italy’s most precious natural heritage, the forest on the mountain range of the Dolomites, was ripped apart in less than 24 hours by wind and rain.
Astonishing pictures show hundreds of trees, one million cubic metres of forest, eradicated and destroyed.
The same storm which put an end to the centuries-old forest also left in darkness entire areas of the nearby Sette Comuni plateau.
People living in the isolated mountain villages were left without electricity and heating for 48 hours – while temperatures don’t get higher than 8C.
The President of the Mountain Union, Emanuele Munari, invited the thousands of tourists about to head to the area for the winter and skiing season to “get well informed about the situation of the places where they will stay.
“If electricity and heating are lacking, it is better that families with children and the elderly do not come”.