A couple of days ago a helicopter brought materials to the road below Casa Debbio. It was fun to watch it go back and forth from the sports field below Vergemoli to a cleared patch in the forest.
The logs to reinforce the fallen bits of the road are huge.
The final photo is where the road was washed away along with a lovely old aqueduct.
The road to our house was swept away in 2013 and at first I had to jump a waterfall to get to the house until a friend put a couple of planks across. One of the woodcutters made a temporary road soon after.
The road is a state secondary road, not a private road and comune has organised for the road to be fixed. The work should last a couple of months.
Yesterday was the first day of road works and the road will be closed on and off. I would still be able to walk to and from the house…except…
Unfortunately on the first day of road closure I fell in the garden while grappling with a hose. My left foot went into a hole and I came down like a tonne of bricks.
I had to be carried out to the waiting ambulance. Thank goodness for the ever helpful Filippo, the lovely ambulance workers and the handy road workers.
I am now in the hospital in nearby Castelnuovo waiting for surgery for a broken bone and dislocated ankle. It seems I will be out of action for a while. Life is full of twists and turns.