Six dead, two missing after floods hit Italy's Tuscany

 

A car is seen submerged following floods in Livorno, Italy, September 10, 2017. REUTERS/Leonardo Bianchi

 

MILAN (Reuters) - Six people died and two were missing in the Tuscan city of Livorno after heavy rain hit the city early on Sunday, causing floods, the city's mayor said.

 

Between midnight and 0200 GMT, more than 250 millimetres (10 inches) of rain hit the city, causing several streams to overflow, the city of Livorno said on its website, citing several casualties.

 

"The emergency is not over," the administration said on the website.

 

"Livorno has never been so devastated by bad weather," the mayor of Livorno, Filippo Nogarin, said in a video posted on Twitter, adding the weather forecasts did not suggest a cloudburst so violent in central Italy.

 

Heavy rain has also hit Rome, where Mayor Virginia Raggi asked citizens to stay home. A Serie A match between Italian soccer clubs Lazio and AC Milan, due to start at Rome's stadium at 1300 GMT, began a hour later because of the bad weather.

 

(Reporting by Francesca Landini; Editing by Larry King)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-09-11

Houston, French Caribbean, Florida, now Tuscany.  

Man has almost been able to control everything except Mother Nature.  

You would think with all our tech we would have better early warning systems but we prefer to invest in stuff that takes lives (e.g. Nukes, military etc.)then saves lives.

Edited September 11, 20178 yr by smileydude

18 hours ago, smileydude said:

Houston, French Caribbean, Florida, now Tuscany.  

Man has almost been able to control everything except Mother Nature.  

You would think with all our tech we would have better early warning systems but we prefer to invest in stuff that takes lives (e.g. Nukes, military etc.)then saves lives.

 

Compared to Mother Nature "everything" (every manufactured thing? everything that man has achieved?) is utterly insignificant.

 

In time Mother Nature will consume it all, and render it into dust.

 

It means nothing to her.