Bad weather: rivers overflowing in Tuscany, Serchio flooded during the night on the SS12

High attention in Tuscany all night where the red alert for bad weather today involves four provinces, in particular those of Massa Carrara and Lucca, plus some municipalities of Pistoia and Prato. The floods of the waterways were monitored visually.

There were floods of minor streams and also of the Serchio river which overflowed during the night on state road 12 in Borgo a Mozzano, upstream from Lucca. The highway was temporarily closed. The passage of the flood was monitored by the civil protection of the Region and the municipalities downstream, including Lucca, San Giuliano Terme and Vecchiano in the province of Pisa. The Serchio flood reached its mouth into the sea this morning. In San Giuliano Terme the homes in the Serchio floodplain remain evacuated and the bridge in the Ripafratta area remains closed.

In Massa, the embankment of the Frigido river, which had its first flood last night with overflows in the floodplain near the mouth, has been strengthened with new banks in filled earth. Meanwhile, around 100 people remain displaced from the two hamlets of Casette and Forno, villages still isolated due to a landslide which interrupted the hilly roads. Some of them were hosted by the Municipality, others found independent accommodation.

Many municipalities in the areas under maximum alert have opened civil protection operations centers (COC) and closed schools.

Further heavy rainfall is expected today. Also last night, a motorist was saved tonight in a flooded underpass in Carrara, in via Marchetti. In Lunigiana the Bardine stream overflowed in San Terenzo, in the Fivizzano area, and the municipal road leading to the towns of Posterla and Marciaso was flooded.