#Italy: Heavy flooding around Bologna and in the Po River Valley. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
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#Italy: Heavy flooding around Bologna and in the Po River Valley. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/europe/italy-flooding-three-killed-rain-intl/index.html
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| 0:30.0 | Valonia, Italy, Dateline Reuters, nine people died, thousands were evacuated from their |
| 0:41.0 | homes as torrential rain battered Italy's northern Emilia, Romania, region, triggering floods, |
| 0:48.4 | landslides, and worse. |
| 0:50.4 | I welcome Lorenzo Fiori of the Ensaldo Foundation, he is in Milan, and you will recall for more |
| 0:56.2 | than a year. |
| 0:57.8 | Lorenzo has been watching very carefully the Po River, the great arterial system of |
| 1:03.5 | northern Italy that feeds the agriculture, the hydroelectric dams, that is the strength |
| 1:08.8 | and health of Italy, and the Po River has struggled for the last year, at least, with a drought, |
| 1:16.2 | with a severe drop in rainfall, so much so that the concern again was for the crop, the |
| 1:23.7 | saltwater, the brackish water coming up the Po because it was so weak in its flow, then |
| 1:30.0 | suddenly the skies opened. |
| 1:32.5 | Lorenzo, a very good evening to you, nine people dead in Bologna, this is a region called |
| 1:37.7 | Emilia, Romania. |
| 1:39.7 | Where is it from you and Milan and from the Po, good evening to you. |
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