The Serchio overflow, a temporary closure of the SS12 and around 100 people still displaced in the Massa area show that Tuscany's red weather alert has already caused concrete public-safety disruption. Before a full damage assessment is available, the immediate issue is keeping monitoring, protected routes and assistance in place for exposed communities.
ANSA reported that the Serchio overflowed onto the SS12 overnight at Borgo a Mozzano, north of Lucca. The road was temporarily closed. Regional civil protection and downstream municipalities, including Lucca, San Giuliano Terme and Vecchiano, monitored the flood flow before it reached the sea on Thursday morning.
Homes in the Serchio floodplain remain evacuated in San Giuliano Terme, while the bridge at Ripafratta remains closed. In Massa, authorities reinforced the banks of the Frigido with added earth after floodwater overtopped into the floodplain near its mouth. Those interventions matter because they point to continuing exposure, rather than a disruption that ended when the Serchio's first flood crest passed.
The longer disruption is in Casette and Forno, two hamlets still isolated after a landslide cut the hillside road. About 100 people remain displaced; some are being accommodated by the municipality and others have made their own arrangements. Several municipalities in the highest-alert areas have also opened civil-protection operations centres and closed schools.
The supplied report gives no overall damage figure and does not report injuries or deaths. Yet the absence of a final tally should not obscure the evidence already available: road closures, evacuations and isolated communities are serious consequences in their own right. With further intense rainfall expected on Thursday, public authorities need to keep resources focused on the places where water and access failures are already affecting daily safety.
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- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-12
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