Bad weather doesn't let up in Veneto.Hailstones as big as peaches.110 injured, cars destroyed and fields devastated.«The climate crisis brings perfect storms» – Video and photos

Yesterday the storm reached Padua, Venice and Treviso.Two days ago the province of Belluno was hit.The alarm of the president of the CIA of Padua, Trivellato

There is no peace for Veneto until after it has been hit come on mountain storms two days ago, yesterday saw strong storms, wind, and hail even on the plains.The provinces of Padua, Venice and Treviso were particularly affected.In particular, in the municipalities of Montebelluna, Cornuda, Crocetta del Montello and Pederobba, in the upper Treviso area, hailstones the size of tennis balls fell, damaging crops, breaking car windows and devastating car bodies.The same happened in the Padua area, in Camposampiero and Campodarsego.Ice balls as big as walnuts rained down in Cittadella, Limena and San Giorgio in Bosco, and – in the Venetian area – in Stra and Vigonovo.There were 190 interventions by the firefighters in total, «for water damage, removal of fallen trees in the middle of the road, securing dangerous elements:90 in Venice, 50 in Padua, 35 in Vicenza, 12 in Treviso, 13 in Verona."«The number of people injured with trauma caused by hail, falls and broken glass has risen to 110.I thank once again the rescuers and technicians who intervened immediately after the events and who continue in these hours with the restoration works and census of the damage", declared the President of the Region Luca Zaia, which remains in contact with the mayors of the most affected municipalities.

Damage to agriculture:«Like in the emergency room»

Hectares of fields and orchards were destroyed, especially in the province of Padua, where the greenhouse tarpaulins blew away due to the wind blowing at 120 kilometers per hour.There is no estimate of the damage yet, but it is destined to inflate rapidly.«More and more, today, agricultural entrepreneurs work as if in an emergency room – specifies the president of Cia Padova, Luca Trivellato – That is, they intervene directly on the fields to try to save what can be saved when events of this magnitude happen", explains al Corriere del Veneto the president of the Italian Farmers' Confederation (Cia) of Padua, Luca Trivellato, who among the effects of climate change which in recent years have become increasingly evident and frequent, also includes these «real perfect storms, which where they strike destroy everything:in a few minutes the work of an entire season vanishes".«We ask the institutions – he adds – for concrete closeness, also with adequate economic support, in an objectively difficult moment for the sector».