Living on the Edge: The Niscemi Landslide Crisis

The arrival of Cyclone Harry marked a turning point for the town of Niscemi, bringing with it an unprecedented volume of precipitation that the region’s drainage systems were never designed to handle. As the storm hovered over Sicily, it funneled massive amounts of Mediterranean moisture directly into the central hills, turning dry creek beds into raging torrents. The sheer intensity of the rainfall acted as a catalyst for disaster, rapidly destabilizing a landscape already vulnerable to erosion.