Still critical, the situation in Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily, where they expected gale-force winds. Many of the roads impassable. The authorities invite us not to travel unless absolutely necessary. Restored the connections with the Aeolian islands. The volunteers of the Sant’egidio Community: donate a blanket to those who live in the street
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Continues the wave of bad weather in the regions of centre and south Italy. Are provided from the morning of today, winds up to gale force on Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily. They report it to the civil Protection, which adds that on the same Regions and on the region are foreseen even snowfall, with contributions on the ground from weak to moderate.
Disruption on the motorways
Many of the hardships recorded along the main roads of the provinces of the south of Italy. It has been declared by the Roads to Italy, the ‘code red’ on some sections of the A14 motorway in the stretch between Valvibrata and Termoli and in the stretch between Trani and Taranto, to the A25 motorway in the stretch between Sulmona and plug-In/14. In Sicily, the A18 is closed in the stretch between Acireale, Giarre. In general, in view of the criticality on the roads, the municipal institutions, most affected by snow and frost, are advised against travel unless it’s absolutely necessary and then only with chains or snow tires. The transport is affected by the adverse weather conditions: many of the cancelled trains to heavy snowfall while two direct flights to Bari have been made to land in Naples.
8 the victims of the wave of polar frost
Yesterday morning at eight a man in Polish, of no fixed abode, aged 48, was found dead of exposure on the lungarno Area of Florence. Some past have found the body of a man in the gardens and gave the alarm, but the 118 once the place has not been able to confirm the death. In Milan the other homeless people of Polish origin aged 66 and was the victim of the cold. The death dates back to 5 January, but was made public only today. The body has been found inside a building abandoned in via Antegnati in the neighborhood Vigentino.
And was found this morning around 11 a.m., in the Brianza area, the lifeless body of the elder, who died yesterday. The man had Alzheimer’s and when he is estranged from his dwelling was wearing only a sweater and slippers. It is assumed that it has lost orientation, and I have not found the way home. When the wife gave the alarm, are immediately taken to the research, also with the canine unit. Until late in the evening, the men of the civil protection, together with the fire brigade and the police have scoured the wooded area of Briosco, without results though. The operations are then resumed this morning until the elder of the 91 years it was found without life. He had a wound to the head, probably due to a fall on some rocks close to the river Bevera. From the first investigations, which will shed light to the autopsy, the man would stay unconscious, partially immersed in the waters of the stream. Also in this case it is a death due to hypothermia.
The dead of yesterday are in addition to those of the day of the Epiphany. In Avellino, a homeless 44-year-old, of naples, died of exposure and was found waking up from a friend with whom I shared a hut in a former shopping centre of the French. Messina is always a homeless 45-year-old is dead for the night spent in the cold in an abandoned building near the jetty of the ferry. Another without a fixed abode, an indian, was found dead in Aversa in the province of Caserta. And always yesterday the death of another homeless 54-year-old, who lost his life, always with the cold, in front of the church of the Immaculate in Latin america. The man stood habitually on the benches in front of the church and it seems that he had refused the invitation of the health of the 118 to find shelter in a dormitory. To Altamura, near bari, a woman, 49-year-old lost his life slipping on the ice and banging the head on the ground.
Remains critical the situation in the Abruzzo region: it is closed to the Ss17 for Roccaraso
Still closed in the Abruzzo region, the ice layer created by storms of the wind on the road, the stretch of Hwy 17 from Pettorano sul Gizio (10 km after Sulmona) up to the ski resort of Roccaraso (L’aquila). You wait for the clearance from Anas that is completing the necessary verifications to ascertain if the road can be traversed in complete safety. In the meantime, many cars, most of them tourists, are drawn up waiting to leave the locality. The wind seems to now have calmed down. At the moment the area is not snowing and visibility is good. In the meantime, there are many centers – especially in the chieti area – who are without water, and light: the frost has damaged meters, and pipes across the region. Difficult to travel with local buses. The company has had to “reduce the rides also because of the difficulties of the drivers that have pr oblems to reach the deposits from the various centers of the province”.
Apulia: still snow and icy roads
do Not loosen the bite of the frost in Puglia, where the exceptional wave of bad weather is causing many problems with the Municipalities and farms isolated because of the snow, and hospitals, as one of Acquaviva delle Fonti, in the province of Bari, difficult to reach, the roads impassable with snow and ice, agricultural production destroyed. The airports are open to hiccups: for the moment, it is closed to Brindisi (but should open shortly), and is open to Bari, where yesterday due to bad weather, were canceled some international flights. In Bari this morning, not snowing but the roads are full of ice and mayor Antonio Decaro has forbidden the circulation of cars without chains or tire temperature.
The most affected area from snow is that of the Murgia Cassano, Altamura and Santeramo are Common practically isolated. In the area of the snow reaches up to two meters. Many families do not have water because of pipes frozen. In other areas it lacks light. Emergency even at Gioia del Colle and Taranto, especially in the municipalities on the strip west of the province. The situation is critical in Laterza, Mottola and Castellaneta. They are good and they have spent the night warm, the tourists from Taiwan who were rescued yesterday after being stranded because of the snow, for about 20 hours, between Matera and Laterza on a bus.
In Tarantino are closed almost all the streets: rather, it is passable with chains or with tyre heat the 106 ionica. Are not passable almost all of the roads also on the Gargano and the Subappennino dauno. Heavy snowfall yesterday to Brindisi, where they were used to transport salt. In Lecce, we immediately started the emergency plan. Almost all the schools in the Puglia tomorrow, will remain closed.
Schools closed even in Matera, Potenza and Salerno
Matera, Potenza and Salerno schools Monday, January 9, will be closed. The measures, issued today, ordered “the suspension of extraordinary and temporary educational activities for the day of 9 January 2017 in all schools of every order and grade, including nurseries”. The municipal ordinances have been decided “as a precautionary measure due to the persistence of adverse climatic conditions”.
Pope: for the homeless dormitories open and drive as shelters
Pope Francis moves in aid of the homeless people who live the difficult times in these nights of frost. Bergoglio, referring to the site of Vatican Radio, has authorized the office of papal charities, the office of the charity of the Pope, to leave the dormitories are open 24 on 24 for the homeless in Rome. This is the “Gift of Mercy”, next to the Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia, the “Gift of Mary”, the dormitory in the Vatican run by the sisters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and of the structure of via Rattazzi, the Termini train station. “For those who do not intend to leave their haunts usual – refers to the microphones of Vatican Radio, monsignor Konrad Krajewski, the Almoner of the Pope – have been made available to the drive of the Elemosineria where already last night a homeless 85-year-old has stayed in the vicinity of the Vatican”. The home less were also offered sleeping bags special resistant to temperatures of minus 20 degrees, and gloves for the cold, “bought today”, stresses the papal Almoner. Monsignor Krajewski reported: “In the dormitory of the via dei Penitenzieri yesterday evening, we hosted 20 people at most but there are 40 chairs in short, anyone who knocks is welcome and can stay warm, getting tea, coffee and something to eat”.
Sant’egidio: donate blankets to those who live in the street
The premier Paolo Gentiloni yesterday visited the Community of Sant’egidio, where he thanked the many volunteers who are doing what they can to help the homeless. “In these hours it is very important that, if you see a tramp sleeping on the road, you stretch a blanket,” explain the operators. The homeless are little more than 50 grand in all of Italy, and of these, 8-10 thousand only in the city of Rome. According to the estimates, three thousand about are fixed to the road while five thousand about living in precarious conditions. The beds made available by the Municipality for the time slots are 550.
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