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This is Elisabetta Zavoli @elizavola for @everydayclimatechange An extreme weather event hit the south part of #emiliaromagna, Italy, on May 16, 2023 causing the largest flood in living memory, the death of 14 people and the displacement of more than 30,000, hundreds of #landslides in the mountainous area and the loss of a great part of crops (mostly orchards and vineyards), of farms and of bee-hives.
The climate crisis makes the Mediterranean climate change and Italy is one of the worst affected. Yet, the vulnerability of Italian territory depends also on the impacts of urbanization, industrialization, intensive agricolture and farming.
Firefighters brigades, volunteers and local workers organised with dinghies and excavators to deliver goods (mostly power banks, food and drinking water) and to move the people living in the flooded districts.
Young volunteers arrived from all over Italy to help cleaning the flooded homes from debris, furniture and cars when the waters receded.
One of the most productive regions of Italy, Emilia Romagna now needs more than 12 billion euros in order to rebuild roads, farms, homes and to fix landslides.
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