Italy's Sicily Hit By Flash Floods: Restaurant Table Swept Away, Car Sinks On The Streets

Italian Sicily flash floods. (Photo: Giusy Genvesi)

JAKARTA - One of the other popular holiday destinations in Europe is now hit by natural disasters. After Spain, now it's the turn of Sicily, Italy, which was hit by severe flash floods, to turn the city's streets into fast-flowing rivers.

The dramatic footage shared on a number of social media platforms, reported by The Sun, Saturday, November 8, shows the chaos that occurred in this Italian holiday hotspot. At Piazza Euripide, totaling 24, Sicily, the flood inundated the street as high as its knees, forcing residents to struggle through heavy currents.

The worst thing is that a number of cars appear to be submerged in cloudy water. Not only the vehicles, tables and chairs of restaurants along the road were also swept away by the flow of water. In fact, motorists must be very careful when trying to cross the streets that change their function to become tributaries that flow hard.

Italy's weather forecast agency, ItalyMeteo Agency, has issued a bad weather warning. The moderate rain warning and this thunderstorm is announced to last for the next few days. Authorities also urged local residents to stay at home whenever possible.

This disaster occurred just days after Spain was hit by similar horror floods. A major storm hit Barcelona and the Balearik Islands, forcing Catalans to take "extreme precautions" and take shelter indoors.

Sisilia is now the newest location to face the adverse effects of a series of storms that hit South Europe.