Silvana Bini, on social media Nonna Silvi, is a food influencer who has become known on social media thanks to her traditional Tuscan recipes. In his latest video he showed all his anger at the damage caused by the flooding of the Elsa river in Castelfiorentino, Florence, where he owns a local products business: “What has our municipality done? I’ve been saying for months to clean the sewers, but no one has listened to me.”
From the profile of Nonna Silvi (Silvana Bini), on the left the video of the outburst and on the right one of her video recipes
“Our work stops. I’ve been talking about the sewers for two months, but no one listened to me. My voice stopped saying that the sewers are full.” The broken voice and the tears barely held back. As Grandma Silvisocial name of Silvana Binihe showed on his social networks scenario of desolation left by the flooding of the Elsa river in Castelfiorentino, in the province of Florence.
Grandma Silvias she calls herself on social media, has earned the sympathy of many in recent years thanks to her actions traditional Tuscan recipes and to his unmistakable bite. Today his profiles boast millions of followers: 3.5 on Instagram and 1.8 on TikTok to be precise. It is precisely to them that he wanted to show what is happening in his land, to Castelfiorentinowhere he runs a shop selling local products and delicatessen, which now – as with the other activities of the Valdelsa – is dealing with the damage caused by bad weather.
Grandma Silvi’s anger: “No one listened to me”
While in the car, sitting on the passenger side, Nonna Silvi shows the water that flooded everything in Castelfiorentino: the campi, the streets, everything is covered in ahuge expanse of putrid water.
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“I’ve been talking about the sewers for two months, but no one listened to me, we got there. Who assisted us?“, said Mrs. Silvana, and then explained better: “They send the workers there and throw the dirt into the sewers and they are all full. We are all people who work here. There’s one of ours there truck full of bread to be thrown away“, he adds, pointing to a truck half submerged in water.
“Here there are all industrial areas. What has our Municipality done? We pay the taxes.” He also repeats it to passers-by he meets on the street: “What has our Municipality done? I’m Nonna Silvi, I don’t know if you know me. Now they take the cameras and it shows up. Look at where we are.”
“It’s been two months. The workers came to clean, for the beauty of the street, they cut the grass and threw it into the sewers. I told them: if the water comes, the slaughter happens and there was a massacre. Now who pays us back? Shameful”, continues the grandmother influencer.
The affectionate comments on the video
In less than 24 hours after publication, the comments section of the video was clogged with messages of solidarity and affectionbut also of anger towards the institutions. There are those who write “We are a finite country” and those who focus above all on Grandma Silvi’s pain: “A great woman and hard worker. In your words we perceive all your suffering and the sacrifices of a life. Your anger is full of truth” a follower wrote to her on TikTok, to which Ms. Silvana responded, reiterating once again “No fear just truth”.
