Flood Events
The river is highly prone to flooding. During the two hundred year period 1801–2001 parts of the Tanaro basin were affected by floods on 136 occasions, the most devastating being those of November 1994 when the whole of the river valley was affected by severe flooding and the town of Alessandria was especially stricken.
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“Twilight and evening bell.
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
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The flood may bear me far,
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When I have crossed the bar.”
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