Bad weather, an orange alert on Sunday in 6 regions. In Veneto "apocalyptic situation"

In Veneto

"The situation is heavy, apocalyptic, devastated streets, pylons folded like twigs". The director of the Department of National Civil Protection told him in Belluno Angelo Borrelli at the meeting with the president of Veneto Luca Zaiaat the end of the inspection of the areas affected by bad weather "We must start immediately because if we have to wait for the damage, we will act in at least two months, we suffer throughout Italy, but this territory is much more heavy".

So much so that in the afternoon, the governor of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, called on Governor Zaia, baduring him that he would personally follow the narrative, "to quickly launch a plan of action. interventions for the recovery of infrastructure, buildings and the environment and to avoid the phenomenon of population depopulation ". mountain valleys ".

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On the devastated Dolomites: "All we have left is fear"

of our correspondent GIAMPAOLO VISETTI

An alarming image in Veneto. "We recorded winds of up to 180 km / hour in the valleys and the devastation was therefore similar to that of Liguria.We will request the declaration of the state of emergency for the first resources – added Borrelli – Then regulations and orders on the management of debris and management of procurement procedures for restoration work After the month of August, the national coordination of civil protection is convened to amend the procurement code and requested that the rules be used in case of emergency.

Emergency also in the south, damage in Sicily

Dramatic situation also in the south, in Sicily, where the archaeological sites of Agrigento are closed for weather warnings and where the line of railway from Palermo to Agrigento stops until 17 hours to allow the restoration of the flat eroded by the rain. The roads completely invaded by mud and turned into rivers, landslides and floods are the situation in Petralia Soprana, in the province of Palermo, where yesterday, due to bad weather, the Salso river overflows near the village of Raffo . This morning the rain came back to fall in the Municipality of Madonie. "The damage is huge and the same difficulties," said Mayor Pietro Macaluso, who today signed the closing order of schools of all levels following the red alert launched yesterday by the Civil defense. Due to bad weather and violent storms, the first citizen decided to leave the students at home and advise all citizens not to leave their homes.

Bad weather also next week

The forecast also speaks of new rains and storms for next week, with a sharp drop in temperatures: very mild weather in Sicily, showers, strong thunderstorms locally and risk of lightning. From the afternoon, further significant deterioration in Sardinia. Maximum temperatures slightly increasing in the central-north: maximum up to 23-24 degrees south. Red alert for civil protection in Sicily (north-west and Egadi and Ustica islands, south-west and Pantelleria islands, south-central and Pelagia) for hydraulic and hydrogeological risks. Orange warning in Lazio and areas of Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia.

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14 million trees destroyed

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Felling of trees due to bad weather. Cristoforetti moved: "I thought that they were eternal and that the wind had created them"

And although the bad weather does not let up with the forecast of heavy rain and lubrication, we do the damage in the woods. Fourteen million trees destroyed by bad weather, and after that of Val di Fiemme, in Trentino-Alto Adige, also the second most important forest due to the presence of spruces whose wood is made for the manufacture of Stradivari, have suffered serious damage. It is Val Saisera, a forest of the hamlet Valbruna Malborghetto located in the region of Tarvisio (Udine) in Upper Friuli, near the Austrian border.

"The damage to the natural heritage is fraught with wounds that do not heal immediately, and after Stradivari another forest of violins has been destroyed: the Val Saisera forest is the second forest of violins struck." Habsburg Empire: the forest spruce trees that gave birth to famous violins all over the world The valleys of the Friuli Dolomites in the Unesco region are inaccessible to landslides We are facing a damage which we do not have. I'm not aware yet, I'm thinking of the inevitable mess that will follow, Pradut's wood is practically on the ground and the legendary Val Cimoliana steeple is also inaccessible. "

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So Franco Polo, coordinator of Aigae environmental guides of Friuli Venezia Giulia, talking about isolated valleys ", such as Val Cellina, Val Vajont, Val Degano, Upper Val Tagliamento, Sauris region and Friuli Sappada without forgetting the different isolated fractions on a territory of 300 km 2 ".

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Bad weather, killing of fir trees in the Dolomites. The lumberjack of Stradivarius: "To recover them, it will take two centuries"

from PAOLO G. BRERA

Coldiretti: a century to return to normal

Data from Coldiretti and Federforeste confirm that they speak of 14 million trees destroyed by the weather, thus compromising the ecological and environmental balance of large mountain areas and jeopardizing hydrogeological stability. According to the estimates of Coldiretti and Federforeste, it seems that beech and fir trees have been burned in the forests of Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli, where it will take at least a century to return to the normal.