{"id":3840,"date":"2011-10-26T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T06:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2011-10-26T06:05:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T06:05:59","slug":"floods-and-landslides-in-italy-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/10\/26\/floods-and-landslides-in-italy-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods and landslides in Italy yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary: <\/strong>Italy suffered very heavy rainfall yesterday, triggering landslides and floods.\u00a0 One landslide hit a truck in La Spezia.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the La Spezia and Tuscany areas of Italy suffered very heavy rainfall, triggering widespread floods and landslides.\u00a0 La Repubblica has some interesting video footage<\/a> of the outcome – unfortunately so far the toll is reported to be five fatalities with a further eight people missing.\u00a0 The weather forecast for today is very poor once again, such that there are severe weather warnings for a large area.\u00a0 Italy is of course very prone to floods<\/a>, mudslides<\/a> and large landslides<\/a>, as covered in previous posts<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

Some landslides have occurred – particularly notable is one that occurred on the A12 motorway between Brugnato and Carrodano, in the province of La Spezia,\u00a0 Reported rainfall in this area has exceeded 400 mm, inducing a landslide that struck a an articulated truck (images from La Repubblica<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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The news reports suggest that the driver was stuck in his cab for some hours after the incident before being rescued – I am not sure whether he was very unlucky (to be hit in the first place) or very lucky (to survive).\u00a0 It is however slightly surprising to see a failure affecting a tunnel portal in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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