Bad weather in Veneto, Zaia in government: “48 devastating hours, state of emergency declared”
The governor: "Hundreds of families with water at home, a retirement home evacuated. Water bombs are the real problem"
VENICE – It was a “devastating and important” 48 hours< /strong>“, from last afternoon to half past two in the morning in Veneto “we had everything”. On Radio 24 Luca Zaia, president of Veneto, talks about the ‘blow’ of bad weather on the region where a clearing is now expected, even if the guard remains very high. The scenario “is a state of emergency and I hope the Government declares it quickly“.
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The bad weather has put “hundreds of families in difficulty, yesterday 200, today many more: there are no displaced people, but families with water at home”, says Zaia. A couple of hospitals in difficulty, like the one in Camposampiero (here there is water in the basement), “but not seriously”; ditto, a couple of retirement homes (an evacuation was ordered for one). The breach of the embankment in Camposampiero had repercussions on the Paduan and Venetian areas, “but at 4 this morning the excavators were already there trying to plug the leak”. Then the canals in the Asolo area flooded (Asolo is underwater in its lower part).
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Zaia, however, reiterates that without the lamination basins Vicenza would have ended up flooded and without basins “I have no idea of the size of the disaster that would occur” now. It is also true that the basins are sized for “extraordinary events, but not at these levels”. In other words, climate change “forces us to review the model because we have understood that water bombs are the real problem”: now we have to deal with “equatorial downpours that we are not experiencing get used to it”.