The storms brought to southern Italy this week by Cyclone Harry have caused over one billion euros in damage in Sicily alone, ANSA sources said on Thursday.
Sicilian Governor Renato Schifani said earlier on Thursday that, according to an initial estimate, the cost of the damage to infrastructure, roads, business premises, hotels and bars amounted 741.5 million euros.
But ANSA sources said the lost income for farms, fishers and businesses takes the total over the one-billion-euro mark.
Schifani said his executive had met to approve a measure to put to the regional assembly declaring a state of emergency and approving an initial allocation of 70 million euros to start addressing the consequences of the wave of extreme weather.
Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria were all hit especially hard by the wave of violent winds, torrential rain and storm surges.
