Italy Floods August 2024 Updates. Northern italy has been hit by severe storms and heavy rainfall, leaving several regions, including padua and vicenza, submerged. Venice, italy (ap) — the worst flooding in venice in more than 50 years prompted calls wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated.
Rome (ap) — about a thousand residents were evacuated in the. Some 400 people remained in evacuation centers in the regional capital of ostrava, unable to return home.