FLORENCE, ITALY – The wave of bad weather lashing Tuscany since early Tuesday morning hasn’t spared the Grosseto area and, in particular, the Albinia and Orbetello districts, hard hit by the floods of 12 November.
According to reports from the operations room of the civil protection department of Grosseto province, some families have been evacuated from their homes around Albinia as a precaution. Teams of firemen and locals from Orbetello are working to alleviate the situation.
Rainfall forced a temporary closure Tuesday of the rail line between the cities of Pisa and Genoa, lot of local streets in Florence and the Aurelia highway near Carrara. As many as 28 people were forced from their homes by floods in the city of Carrara, reminding people of severe flooding earlier this month in many parts of Tuscany.
More should be done to protect the region, Carrara Mayor Angelo Zubbani told Mediaset television. “Fifteen days after the previous flood we have this storm hit us, we’re a fragile area with open wounds,” he said. In Venice authorities were cautiously hopeful that the high water, which had reached 103 centimetres, will be lower than earlier forecast. Waters were flooding about 10% of the historic city’s centre, lifted higher still by the force of sirocco winds.
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