Staggering vids show floods sweeping through Italy as ‘red alert’ issued over storm & rain deluge triggers landslides

ASTONISHING video footage shows extreme floods sweeping through the streets of Italy as a red alert is issued for severe weather.

The north of the country has been battered by storms, causing massive disruption and even triggering landslides.

Flooded street in Italy.
Torrents of water flooded through narrow streets in the Piedmont regionCredit: X
Flooded street in Italy.
Fast-flowing water transformed the roads of Turin into riversCredit: X
Flooded Italian street with a car.
The flooding caused widespread disruption to road and railCredit: X

Italy is currently facing severe weather conditions, joining other European countries like Majorica and Lanzarote, where flooding has been ongoing.

Clips uploaded to social media show torrents of water rampaging down steep, narrow streets.

The roads and walkways are completely submerged beneath the gushing brown water, turning the passages into fast-flowing rivers.

Fountains and spray form where the water collides with walls because it is flowing with such force.

Other aerial shots show huge swathes of land underwater, with fields resembling large, still lakes.

Countryside roads are completely flooded in certain sections, rendering them unusable, and stand as islands amid the water.

The Piedmont region, north-west Italy, announced a state of red alert on Thursday as it contended with terrible weather.

Torrential rain and relentless gales lashed the area, causing flooding and massive disruption to traffic and rail services.

Some residents were forced to evacuate their homes after a landslide in the town of Villadossola.

The city of Turin closed off access to riverbank areas as a safety measure, and one railway station ground to a complete halt.

Staggering videos show Brit hols hotspot Lanzarote SWAMPED by floods as island deluged in two-hour in rainstorm

Some areas have even been hit with snow, closing down a major tunnel.

Milan shut off its city parks due to the heavy rain and strong winds, and the fire brigade in the capital Rome was called out to over 100 incidents.

More intense rain has been forecast to fall on the already water-logged land on Thursday, but experts hope it the weekend will bring a reprieve.

Alberto Cirio, the Governor of Piedmont, mentioned that he began his day at the Piedmont Civil Protection headquarters in Turin, where the operations center has been operational round the clock since yesterday.

“We are expecting the extremely critical situation to last three or four hours more, but, at the moment, no one has been injured.

Aerial view of flooded farmland in Italy.
Huge areas of countryside were also left underwaterCredit: X
Aerial view of flooding in Italy.
Fields were completely waterlogged, with further rain expected on ThursdayCredit: X
Flooded road and gas station in Italy.
Roads were covered by standing water and rendered impassableCredit: X

“We hope this will continue. We expect the emergency to be over by early afternoon.”

Italy’s struggles follow staggering scenes in Lanzarote, after a year’s worth of rain fell inside two hours in a storm last weekend.

Hotels were forced to close their doors and flights to and from the island were diverted and cancelled.

Majorca was next, with the usually-balmy island buried beneath a thick layer of ice after a freak hail dump.

Diggers were drafted in to clear the icy sludge and get roads moving again.

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