Bad weather, more than 1 billion euro damage in Sicily
Cyclone Harry devastated infrastructure and production activities. Work is underway on compensation for income lost by companies.
The overall estimate of the damage caused by Cyclone Harry in Sicily exceeds one billion euro. IIn just two days, the bad weather has devastated infrastructure, roads, marinas, bathing establishments, production activities and accommodation facilities, especially along the Ionian coastline and in the area overlooking the Strait of Sicily.
On the morning of 22 January, the governor Renato Schifani announced an estimate of 741.5 million euro in damages, calculated by the regional civil protection. To this must be added the lost income of productive activities, for which relief and contributions are being worked on.
Musumeci: 'Prevention prevented victims'
"It is clear that the prevention here has brought concrete results, fortunately we have not recorded any casualties," said the Minister of Civil Protection Nello Musumeci during his visit to Santa Teresa di Riva (Messina), one of the places most affected by the wave of bad weather. "The climate has changed and the meeting of hot air with cold air determines the cyclone," he continued, "the issue is not if it comes back but when it comes back and hoping that it comes back as late as possible we must work for prevention the structural one and the verbal one, that is, the one you do in schools when you explain it to a child.
