Cars piled up in the streets as a torrent of flood water swept them downstream. Video of the event shows water two to three feet deep rushing through Genoa’s streets.
Reuters reports on the aftermath:
Crews clearing debris from the streets early on Friday found cars piled up on top of each other and sunk into huge holes in the roads. Thick layers of mud reached high up many shop walls.Italy’s mountainous geography has always been vulnerable to environmental disasters, but the impact of storm and landslide damage has been exacerbated in recent years by unregulated building and the poor state of some public infrastructure.
A blocking pattern, which has been preventing a trough of low pressure from moving past Europe, has been siphoning storms northeast into the continent over the past few days, and will likely continue to do so until early next week.
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