Hello there again, this is your despondent Rome correspondent with a weather update.
So far this week we've had two great thunder storms (Wednesday night and Thursday morning) and heavy showers that have left the city paralysed and flooded. Yesterday traffic stood still in many places and as usual no one arrived on time anywhere in the whole nation. UN staff were sent home early yesterday due to heavily congested roads, and were for the same reason given permission to arrive late for work this morning. Today the downpour continued and soon UN staff were reached by the news that Rome's river was overflowing, thus flooding lower parts of the city and accompanying countryside. People were sent home early. WFP HQ is not flooded or at risk, as of yet. Non-UN Italians were told not to bother showing up at work today at all. The general transport strike for today was cancelled due to the fact that nothing was working anyway.
I swear I'm no making this stuff up!
Ciao
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Hope you brought your gum boots (wellies) with?
In Venice they have sirens to tell the residents how high the flooding is. My friends were there recently and thought they were going to be bombed!
love
Carmel
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