On holiday at Lake Garda, Italy, Giovanni contacted us via the orange Alert us button after seeing unusual hailstones falling from the sky for an hour. “Monday evening, it was apocalyptic, the catastrophe“, he tells us.
“It started around 9:30 p.m. On returning to the hotel, thunderstorms and hail started. They were hailstones the size of tennis balls. The vehicles outside are all dented, not one was spared“, says Giovanni still shocked.
Giovanni and the other vacationers gathered on the ground floor of the hotel. “We helped people who were injured, because my wife is a first aider. She helped a person whose hand was injured because her windshield had exploded“, describes the tourist.
Outside, the clearing quickly began: “The people of the commune were already cleaning the outside with tractors because there are lots of trees, all the branches have fallen“, Giovanni clarifies. “On the street it was impossible to walk or ride“.
Our witness also saw his brother-in-law’s vehicle damaged by hailstones. “He called the insurance, and the lady told him that he called at the right time, because the plant was already starting to be overloaded.“, he concludes. He is now waiting for the tow truck and hopes to recover a replacement vehicle.
On July 20, the provinces of Venice, Padua, Vicenza and Treviso, in the Veneto region (northeast) had already been particularly hit by bad weather. High winds, hailstorms and heavy rains were reported. A total of 110 people were injured by hail, shards of glass and falling objects. A person was also seriously injured after falling from a roof.
