<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Nature broke that pact Oct. 25, when a violent downpour unleashed unprecedented fury on the town of Vernazza and the surrounding hills along Italy’s northwestern coast, provoking dozens of landslides that swept a sludgy<wm>, muddy mess of earth and water that re-wrote the town's history. Not less severe was the time of the first reported 1948 flood that hit Vernazza, in conjunction with its neighbor Rho, in northern Italy.

**The water and landslide damage was so severe that an international aid agency announced a massive influx of refugees and people seeking to leave Italy in the years following the first devastating flood, and that affected nearly a third of the town’s citizens.

According to the latest research</wm> studies published in Italy, the town's history books would need a revision: 

* The flood hit