The weather system that we had here 2 days ago has moved north with shocking consequences .
The dramatic death toll continues to rise and at 3,30 this afternoon stands at 9 . Among the total includes a poor woman who was dragged by the fury of the waters from Cesena to the sea and a man who was overwhelmed by a landslide in Casale di Calisese, in the province of Forlì Cesena. There are 13 thousand displaced people, 50 thousand homes left without electricity, 21 rivers have burst their banks and have flooded the surrounding areas . The rain has now stopped but many many hills are likely to slide down onto the towns in the valleys .
It is a little known fact that Puglia has no rivers. The limestone rock means that the water travels underground in vast caverns and then bubbles up though the sand into the sea . Sometimes we have to be thankful for this as it saves us from these kind of events.
I was going to write a light hearted piece about the way supermarkets and other large stores treat the checkout area where you do the checkout yourself but I’ll leave that for another day.
In Puglia and Places 