The torrential rain over the past 24 hours is starting to make itself felt on the infrastructure of Barga with some trees now in danger of falling in certain areas and one or two landslides starting to appear on the landscape.
For the moment nothing serious, its just the sodden earth obeying the laws of gravity and as you can hear in the interview below with the assessore alla Protezione Civile Pietro Onesti, the problems are being dealt with but one of the main reasons behind this movement of earth and rocks is the lack of maintenance on private land close to the roads.
In short, people are just not working on the hillsides any longer and so damage when it occurs is multiplied.
The road to Sommocolonia is partially blocked by a small landslide and technicians from the Comune are keeping a close eye on the situation and if conditions change for the worse and more rocks come down then they will close the road to all traffic.
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