And you didn't see the 12cm hailstorm that also hit northern Italy this week. That stuff destroyed basically every car, solar panels and coltures.
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I found myself in a tent in the mountains around Bergamo last week. After continuous lightning for several hours, around 4:30 at night our (pretty safe looking, not at the bottom of the terrain) tent spot turned into a river with 15 cm of water and hail running straight through the tent. The tent of course also filled with water, and we had to evacuate in the middle of the night.
Thankfully there was a rifugio/mountain cabin just a bit more than an hour from there that we had passed the day before, that we could get back to and seek shelter in. In the morning another round of the storm came along, blowing away huge outdoor tables along with the fence of the rifugio. Some people were arriving in the beginning of the storm as the forecast had been just fine and they had set out in the morning.
In the end, looking at the weather in the North now, I'm just happy it wasn't even worse.
This footage of ice flooding Seregno is insane: https://youtube.com/shorts/q4J8W7SEo1c?feature=share
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