Storms in Italy

[Pauline]

Storms started on Sunday night and continue this week. Aqua Alta in Venice, snow in northern Italy, rain and flooding on the Amalfi Coast. Good thing we are all smart enough to not be traveling in Italy in November!*

Article from The Local: Italy Braced for a Week of Storms, Nov 7, 2017
https://www.thelocal.it/20171107/italy-braced-for-week-of-winter-storms

From the article:

Campania: orange alert

Almost the entire region of Campania has been placed on orange alert – one below red –for strong winds and storms, which have already caused several mudslides.

Areas along the Amalfi Coast are the worst affected. Some people living in mountain areas near Sorrento have been cut off for days after a landslide blocked the road. Elsewhere firefighters had to free motorists trapped in flooded underpasses.

Evacuations have been ordered in certain areas at high risk. The danger has been heightened by the summer drought and wildfires, which left the ground hard and bare of vegetation.

In Positano, schools were ordered to close on Tuesday and Wednesday. Meanwhile trains in and around Naples, including to Pompeii, suffered heavy delays.

* posting this from Positano

 

[SMJ]

Stay safe and dry!

 

[Roz]

Pauline, you still have several days on the Amalfi Coast, don't you? Hope you aren't too severely affected. How is it where you are?

 

[susan]

I hope the weather gets better for you soon! I have to say, that is a really cool photo of the towers in Bologna! I'm sure the residents there are not so thrilled with the storm though.

 

[Pauline]

We had rain, sometimes heavy, for two days. The sun is shining today. We leave tomorrow. I posted photos of the mud and damage in my trip report.