A Christmas Flood

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It wasn’t Christmas for everyone.

I was driving back home from a challenging meal with the beloved ones when an absurd though fascinating scenario was in front of us. Where once you could see fields, there was a lake, and a small group of trees emerged from the flat, reflective surface.

The population living along the pistoiese road area is used to these events, that might occur at least once a year, but still it is the source of a lot of discomforts, with basements and ground floors flooded by muddy water, when the Ombrone river overflows.

The striking view was there to be captured in a moment when the rain had let up and the sun was lighting up the lawn.

I had with me a little camera, all manual, the lightmeter was actually bigger than the camera itself.

Not more to say, it was a hard Christmas season for those who experienced even harder emergencies, like in the Massaciuccoli lake area, in Tuscany. The lake has invaded the fields, the houses and destroyed a bridge as the embankment failed to contain the pressure of the seasonal flood. Many blamed the poor conditions of the bank and the lack of a planned maintenance.