Posted by:
Tyrrhenia
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Date: August 24, 2016 07:31AM
DH woke me up at 5:30 this morning (for once that I could sleep...) to tell me if I had heard what had happened in Italy. I said no, and he told me "An earthquake in Umbria!" Panic of course, and the first thought went to Assisi, Gubbio, Perugia! and my beautiful town, of course. I don't want to say I am insensitive to the victims, of course I am, but that is a part of Italy where there is art (ancient churches and buildings, Museums, archeological sites) at every corner.
M.T., this time it is a bit more on the south, between the provinces of Rieti and Ascoli Piceno, but of course it has been felt all over central Italy, in L'Aquila, Rome, and my town in Tuscany. I read Amatrice is destroyed and the number of the victims is now 38!
Reconstruction: what does it say about people and politics, the fact that the area in Friuli (North-east Italy) hit by the earthquake in 1976 was efficiently rebuilt without dispersion of funds and waste of time, while after the earthquakes in Belice (Sicily, 1968) and Irpinia (Campania, 1980), funds disappeared, people weren't able to rebuild their villages, always complaining about the State, and decades later they were still living in containers? I don't know, what do you think, Mike T.?