On Friday, heavy rains in an area near Florence inflated rivers and flood roads, the authorities issued a red weather warning for the historic Italian city and its surroundings and urged the residents to stay inside the house.
The central Tuscany region’s leading Uconio Jiyani, including Florence and PISA, asked citizens to “maximum care and attention”, warning of “acute and frequent rain” during the day.
Florence officials ordered Ufiji Galries, the World Famous Art Museum to close quickly, and Duomom said that it was also being closed.
Firefighting Service partially published the images of cars, which are immersed in the city of Sesto Firentino to the north of Florence, in which Jiyani asked the residents to keep the ground floor and basement clean.
More than 500 firefighters were working in Tuscany, the internal minister said, either or planned with more than 300 interventions.
Bernardo Gojini of Tuskan Weather Service Consorzio Lama told the courier dela Sera that 60 millimeters (2.4 in) rains had fallen into the area around the Sesto Fiorantino between 6:00 pm and the afternoon.
“In Florence, in the month of March, we usually have 70 millimeters of total rainfall,” said Gozini.
“In practice, it is as if the price of a month of rain fell in six hours.”
Flood
Schools, parks and cemeteries at Florence and nearby Preto were already closed after an order on Thursday.
Jiyani said that floods and expansion tanks were opened to reduce the pressure on the river, Arno through Florence and Pisa.
He said that in Florence, Arno was expected to grow in the evening to its highest point.
A city to the west of Florence, Elecio Mantalesi, a city, said in a live post on Facebook that the situation is “worse than 2019”, when Empoli flooded.
“This is one of the most difficult moments in recent history,” he said.
In Pisa, army troops placed sand bags behind the barrier behind a swelling river, while on top of the walls of the Arno River in Florence, lepping in images published by Jiyani on telegram.
Across the Tuscany border in Emilia Romagna, where disastrous floods left the death of 17 people two years ago, officials also issued a red weather warning.
Some rivers in the region, including the historic city of Bologna, were already swollen by the previous downpoors.
Emilia Romagna President Mitchell D. Pascale said that it was “very violent” weather on Friday morning.
“We should pay a lot of attention, it is a basin that has been killed several times in recent years,” he said in a statement.
Scientists have repeatedly warned that man-made climate change increases the risk of natural disasters such as floods.
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