Castiglione del Lago - One day starts with the summer weather than yesterday's June 6, 2008, transformed into an inferno of autumn. They are about 18.00 when suddenly the sky is covered by two massive clouds in four quattrotto and give rise to a strong storm, with frightening intensity, worthy to enter the history of meteorology: hail and torrential rain beat upon the west coast of Lake Trasimeno, involving in particular the town of Castiglione del Lago, the prey of the strong storm. In a few minutes on the village lake temperature increased from +22 ° C to +13 ° C, the roads become rivers in flood, flood the subways of the railways was creating many problems for the movement, even paralyzed by the monstrous intensity of precipitation,
which highlighted the problem of poor maintenance of drains and channels for collecting water, often clogged with debris of all kinds. Too easily have closed major ditches and canals, with drain pipes and surrounded by concrete and tar. The Fire Department Perugia to work with a 'dewatering from 20.00, continued to operate until late at night to release water from flooded basements and garages. The lack of a fixed garrison of the fire brigade is heard in these cases ... by law enforcement agents have found themselves unlucky to rescue motorists trapped in cars under water, as happened in the subway connecting Castiglione del Lago with fractions of Pozzuolo Plain and where a gazelle Carabinieri lent assistance to a motorist stopped nell'allagamento, 
giving tangible evidence of the importance of this body that just yesterday celebrated its foundation on live television from Rome, where citizens feel close. Weather events like yesterday's are certainly a clear sign of climate change on a global scale, which is discussed for some time and this will be discussed here in Umbria. Perhaps not enough to solve the political, but it is necessary that each citizen changes his mind, applying a bit 'of common sense into common shares every day, in his action within the community, only then perhaps we can begin to reverse the road is leading us towards the environmental point of no return. 
