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At least nine dead and 20k homeless in Italy’s worst flooding in 100 years

3 points| oAlbe | 2 years ago |theguardian.com

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oAlbe|2 years ago

> Pierluigi Randi, the president of Ampro, the association of weather experts, told La Repubblica it was the worst flood to affect Italy in a century. It followed flooding in Emilia-Romagna and parts of Marche in early May in which two people died. Six months’ worth of rain fell in two weeks.

> “We need to prepare ourselves, this is the climate crisis,” Randi said.

> Before the latest floods, Emilia-Romagna and other areas of northern Italy were blighted by a drought that dried out land, reducing its capacity to absorb water.