cyclone cleopatra sardaigne

That crater was where one of Cyclone Cleopatra's victims died. Hundreds of people across the Mediterranean island have been moved from their homes because of the flash flooding caused by Cyclone Cleopatra. La solidarité s'organise, notamment via les réseaux sociaux. Yet this was - according to the BBC weather centre - exceptional for this part of the world. A Brazilian family of four drowned when their basement flat in the town of Arzachena, in the northern part of the island, filled with water. Le Conseil des ministres se réunit en urgence mardi matin à Rome, et le chef de la protection civile se rend en Sardaigne. Roads have been destroyed up and down the length of the island Pitch black in the middle of nowhere and the road just ended. L'électricité est coupée depuis lundi.

2.700 Sardes ont dû quitter leur domicile.Mardi matin, les Italiens ont découvert les dégâts. On the highways "No Entry" signs and barriers force drivers to choose a different way.

Most roads are fine, the bridges still standing, and safe.

Un des policiers est mort, les trois autres ont pu être sauvés par des secouristes.On compte aussi parmi les victimes une femme de 64 ans noyée dans sa maison du village d'Uras, dans le sud-ouest de l'île, toujours selon l'agence Ansa. La tempête Cleopatra a …

Le bilan - toujours provisoire - qui est passé entre-temps à 18 victimes. These are external links and will open in a new windowCyclone Cleopatra changed the geography of Sardinia in a matter of hours. L’île de Sardaigne frappée par le cyclone meurtrier Cléopâtre. "We are focusing on essential operations: saving human lives, assisting displaced people and clearing road access," he said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday.More than 440mm (17.3in) of rain fell in 90 minutes overnight into Tuesday morning. Far far fewer people died here than in the recent cyclone in the Philippines. Quatre membres d'une même famille, d'origine brésilienne, ont notamment été retrouvés morts dans leur appartement situé au rez-de-chaussée près d'Olbia, après avoir été manifestement surpris par un jaillissement d'eau.Selon un dernier bilan, quelque 2.700 personne sont sans abri - hébergées chez des proches ou dans les structures publiques. Ils tentent encore d'atteindre des zones rendues inaccessibles par les glissements de terrain et les effondrements de ponts.

The water tore rocks and vegetation, ripping up crops from some of the farmers' fields.

"Remember how the olive trees were there? This part of the Mediterranean often gets unsettled weather at this time of the year, but not normally to this extent. En Italie, de violents orages ont fait 18 morts en Sardaigne, et de nombreuses régions sont toujours inaccessibles aux services de secours. Des trompes d'eau comme on n'en avait jamais vues : certains techniciens parlent de pluies millénaires. Cyclone Cleopatra changed the geography of Sardinia in a matter of hours. And a gaping dangerous hole left behind. Rescue workers are looking for a number of people still reported missing A wide area of muddy, broken land is what is left where the waters flowed.

"I've never seen something like this," says Inspector Antioco Bus. "We're at maximum alert," Giorgio Cicalo, an official from Sardinia's civil protection authority, told Italy's Rai TV. Mais 600 personnes ne peuvent toujours pas rentrer chez elles. Mr Letta announced that 20 million euros (£16.8m, $27m) would be allocated immediately to emergency relief efforts, with soldiers deployed in the region. "It went right past and over that other bridge too, I saw it," says one man, pointing at the next bridge along the river.