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Floods in Italy

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  • Venice under Water – nocomment

    Heavy rains and seas whipped up by strong winds have flooded Venice and brought the lagoon city’s high tide mark to its sixth-highest level since records… 13/11/2012

  • Venice’s San Marco Square under water – nocomment

    Parts of Venice, including the famous San Marco Square, were flooded on Wednesday. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, water levels were thought to… 02/11/2012

  • After calamity strikes

    In some disaster areas teachers are drawing useful lessons from traumatic events; raising awareness of disaster management, teaching students to understand… 12/04/2012

  • High water in Venice – nocomment

    The high tide has touched a peak of 100 centimeters in Venice. No big news for its citizens, who are accustomed to high water, but for tourists it was… 07/11/2011

  • Flash floods cause more havoc in Genoa – nocomment

    Flash floods have once again struck Genoa and Italy’s western coastline following torrential rain. Floodwaters poured through Genoa for the second time in… 06/11/2011

  • Clean-up operation after flooding in northern Italy – nocomment

    A massive clean-up operation was underway in northern Italy on Thursday after flash floods killed at least nine people and left six others missing. 27/10/2011

  • Italy: Floods in Rome – nocomment

    Rome mounted a major clean-up operation after flash floods hit the capital causing major traffic disruption, damage and one death. 22/10/2011

  • Torrential rain floods Sicily and Athens

    Violent thunderstorms and torrential rains have caused chaos across southern Europe. In Italy, much of the Sicilian city of Catania was turned into a raging… 22/02/2013

  • Rome expected to escape severe flooding

    After severe flooding in Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, there is better news for Rome, which is forecast to not be as badly affected by the time rain reaches it… 13/11/2012

  • Four dead as floods hit central Italy

    At least four people are now known to have died after severe floods hit northern and central Italy. Several people are still missing following heavy rains… 13/11/2012

  • Italy drowns under downpour

    Italy’s Environment Minister, Corrado Clini called for more funding to shore up weather defences as the country was hit by a massive downpour. The heavy… 12/11/2012

  • Heavy rains cause flooding in Sicily

    Floods in Sicily have claimed the lives of at least four people, two of whom died when a landslide fell on some houses in the Messina province. Heavy rains… 23/11/2011

  • Flood alerts in Turin as river levels rise after rain

    There have been more weather related deaths in Italy as heavy rains and strong winds continue to batter much of the country. In the region near Naples in the… 07/11/2011

  • Anger in Italy after floods claim 16 lives

    A huge clean-up operation is underway in the Italian port city of Genoa after the worst floods in 40 years left six people dead, including two… 06/11/2011

  • Rain still falling on stricken Genoa

    Efforts to clear up after flash floods killed six people in Genoa are being hampered by continuing rain. The Italian port city saw the equivalent of a third… 05/11/2011

  • Several killed by flash floods in Genoa, Italy

    At least six people were killed as flash floods tore through the Italian city of Genoa. Water cascaded through the centre of the city, a week after torrential… 04/11/2011

  • Italy declares emergency in flooded northwest

    Italy has declared a state of emergency in parts of the northwest battered by torrential rains earlier this week. At least seven people are known to have… 28/10/2011

  • Deadly floods hit Italy

    Words like ‘apocalypse’ and ‘tsunami’ have been used to describe flash flooding that has claimed at least six lives in northern and central Italy. Rescue… 26/10/2011

  • Seven missing in Italian floods

    At least seven people have been reported missing in northern Italy after torrential rain caused flooding and landslides in of Liguria and Tuscany on… 26/10/2011


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