‘We feel abandoned’: Survivors of Italy’s devastating floods

The damage from large landslides in May this year still poses a danger to the roads in the Romagna Apennines and as winter approaches, communities fear they could be cut off again [Cecilia Fasciani/Al Jazeera]

Faenza, Italy — The moment Giorgio Patuelli realised that all his possessions had been destroyed in an instant, was surreal.

“That night, when I believed I was going to drown in the stinking black waters, with the noise of streams all around me, my only thought was to save myself and my loved ones,” he says.