Exceptional rains Wednesday in a drought-struck region of northern Italy swelled rivers over their banks, killing at least eight people, forcing the evacuation of thousands and prompting officials to warn that Italy needs a national plan to combat climate change-induced flooding.
The heavy rains also forced Formula One to cancel this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix to not overtax emergency crews that were already stretched thin in responding to the rivers of mud that have torn through the region, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and homes.
Days of rainstorms stretched across a broad swath of northern Italy and the Balkans, where “apocalyptic” floods, landslides and evacuations were also reported in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia.
The deputy governor of Emilia-Romagna, Irene Priolo, said eight people were killed and others unaccounted for in flooding that forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people.
Among the dead was a farmer who defied floodwaters to try to save equipment on his property, officials said. His wife was among the missing.
Rescue helicopters plucked people from rooftops as floodwaters rose ever higher in homes. In one rescue, a coast guard member pulled a woman out through a skylight from her home and held her tight as the two were winched to a hovering helicopter and pulled inside.
“Even upper floors aren’t safe any more,″ Gian Luca Zattini, mayor of Forli’, one of the hardest-hit towns, told Sky TG24 TV.
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The Story of Noah and the Great Flood—Is It Just a Myth?
I pray for Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 and God please help the world 🌎 right now 🙏🙏🙏
What is the city?
These calamities (earthquakes, floodings, vulcan eruptions) will only increase in time just as stated. These and the blood moons are reminders us of what is yet to come.
I pray for everyone's safety. 🙏
No rain for months and the same amount of rain of months came in some hours and this is the result..😅😢
Ego Exterminator entering now again vade satana Vade República de Italia. +++
Montfort cruzando los Alpes. Ego pontifex maximus
It ain't even that bad.
Oh, is it 'apocolyptic flooding'-time-of-year, again, already…!?! 😂
Asking people to continue to boycott Fox News on cable, also boycott budweiser, send them packing
“By 1999, 40 countries had become involved in cloud seeding efforts….” Then they scream about devastating flooding and “climate change”. There is tons of info on manipulation of the weather but so many still think it’s some made up “conspiracy theory” which is why the powers that be done bother to even hide the fact they are jacking with Mother Nature.
Nooo Italy no please 😭😭😭
I live in the mountains of Bologna and I am a volunteer firefighter, I had never seen anything like this, we worked for hours without ever stopping, many roads have collapsed or flooded many houses destroyed or uninhabitable and families without a roof … let's hold on and we work, we are a strong people 💪🏻 I didn't think they talked about it even abroad…
Mary's tears and God's chastisement for the popes decision to cancel Mary's apparition devotion this year🤔
趕快把電動車報廢。過度用電加速極端氣候。@@
Gees
That's a spicy meatball!
That's what 423 parts per million of Co2 in the atmosphere can give you… Climate change is just starting. Decarbonize now, FAST! to avoid much much worse than this in the coming years
Allah bless him 😢😢😢😢
I love Italy. 😢😢😢😢
Please All people praying for Italian peoples.
My prayers to Italy
From Turkey.
Chemtrails
“Enter through the NARROW gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are MANY who enter through it."
— Matthew 7:13
"Jesus told him, 'I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father EXCEPT through Me."
— John 14:6
"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is NO OTHER NAME under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
— Acts 4:12
"And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart."
— Ezekiel 36:26
"Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, 'I am the LIGHT of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
— John 8:12
“I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention."
— Proverbs 1:24
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?"
— Mark 8:36
:/ Blame La Nina, Not Climate Change
Plant more trees.
Whosoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.
May they grasp this secret and call out to Jesus. He will surely save them!
Italy, the peninsula of injustices!
Where organized crime has gained more and more power over the years, spreading like a cancer!
That cancer that now stretches its legs in the European summits!
The improbable is happening in recent years in Italy.
All as long as they harass honest citizens and there is no shortage of dead!
Deaths caused by other men, not by viruses or disasters!
Stay away from this unfortunate country!
Boycotting it by any means means destroying the evil that dominates it!