SUNDAY November 5th.
The sky is going to became dark and a small rain falling down from the afternoon.
The Sanremo meteo forecast has alerted everybody with his bulletin.

MONDAY November 6th.
It was raining all the night stronger and stronger. In the morning the wind start to be important but not dangerous yet.
At 11:30 the wind was stronger from SW direction. The tendency was to turn through South.
At 13:00 the gusts were up to 45 kn. and the sea was able to overpass the dam.
At 14:00 the first 60kn wind gusts were arriving.
The storm was two hours long and destroys 60% of the ships placed on the dam 30% in a serious way.

Three cars parked on the dam  down way were shifted down the sea.
Several ship break the mooring cleats or the cables and start to go alone in the harbor channel.
Other ship crash one to the other.
The sea level into the harbor grow in few minutes 65 cm due to wind direction and water entering up of dam.
The dam collapsed in two areas, the main one is 15 meters long and big stones of 2 ton were lost down the sea.
Several ships on the other quays crash on the quay reporting damage on the stern.
No people were offended or injured.

We have to thanks the sailor man of the harbor for their support to limit the damages.

Sanremo Harbor has 200 meters of dam destroyed and three ship sanked.

San Bartolomeo, 20km far from Aregai, has lost totally his dam and reported serious damage on the floating quay --> sanbart.rm Video!

Few pictures follows to give you the feeling of this dramatic event.

Aregai Beach

The dam.

No comments.

Guia.

San Bartolomeo dam.

Floating quay in San Barlolomeo.