Another Terrible Flood Has Hit Italy. Dramatic Video

Cars were stacked atop one another
after an extreme flash flood
in Genoa, Italy this week.  

Severe flooding hit parts of Italy this week, with the area around Genoa in the northwestern part of the country hardest hit.

According to Reuters, one person was swept away and drowned as a muddy flash flood blasted through the medieval port city.

This is the second time in three years Genoa has had such a terrible flood.

The 2011 flood killed seven people. The flood also proved the point that if you get one disaster, the time to prepare for the next one is right away.

In the lastest flood, the mayor of Genoa said Italian weather forecasters had said there would be heavy rain, but didn't warn them of an impending major flood.

You can see dramatic videos of the disaster at the bottom of this post.

According to Reuters, the heavy rain wasn't solely to blame for the floods. Poor building decisions and bureacracy worsened things:

"Italy's national council of geologists which warned of looming problems in the fragile area around the city in a statement in January, was heavily critical, saying little had been done since the disastrous 2011 floods.

'It's a mass of problems together. You have houses built in the wrong places, inadequatre water channeling systems, poor planning and administration,' Carol Malgarotto president of the council in the region of Liguria, told Reuters."

About $44 million had been earmarked to reinforce flood defenses, but the spending has been blocked by legal disputes.

All this proves that if a natural disaster shows that things need to be improved, bolstered, fixed or moved so tragedy doesn't happen again, you ought to do it as quickly as possible. You never know when the next one will hit.

Yeah, it might be 100 years from now. But then again, it could be tomorrow.

Here's one scary video from the Genoa flood:




Here's another video of Genoa