“Harry” raged in southern Italy for three days – leaving a trail of destruction behind. In Sicily alone, the storm devastated the southern coast over a length of around 100 kilometers, and things are no better on the Ionian coast of Calabria. The southern coast of Sardinia was also hit with full force. Gigantic waves – a GPS-equipped weather buoy off the coast of Sicily recorded a record wave over 16 meters high – destroyed countless beach resorts and beach bars, tore promenades into the water and washed out roads and railways; Often entire beaches disappeared into the sea.
