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Big River Update

As there has been lots more rain since Wednesday, the river level has risen a fair bit above where it was then. By yesterday it had almost submerged the bars on the Murazzi quayside, as you can see from the photo on this post from local blogger Axell. I cycled along past the bars on Wednesday, so that’s a rise of around four feet in a day or two.

Today the sun managed to stay out for a few hours (although there’s been another thunderstorm since), so I went for a bike ride and retraced our route from Wednesday. The water level seems to be dropping, and the clean-up operation has started. There were even a couple of hovercraft on the river, one with a film crew filming the devastation. They were very noisy, but extremely cool and manoeuverable.

Click on the photo to see all the pictures I’ve taken of the river over the past few days.

A hovercraft on a flooded river Po

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