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Cold weather and the homeless
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Cold weather
and the homeless
Dear readers, this post, is going to be a long post, because we want to talk about a few thing that we are publishing. While this post is talking about mostly about what is happening in Italy, it should concern just about everybody, since the same problems seem to exist everywhere in the world, so, let us talk about it.
Talking about the weather
Cold weather and the homeless is something
that don’t go well together. So, those that don’t have their own warm homes to
live in, they hate the cold winter time, but this year in Italy seems that is
going to be a very cold winter, so let us just think a bit about the homeless
and their problems. I am talking about Italy and winter now, because of the
following event:
Today on Facebook, I have found so many photos
from my Italian friends that show all that snow that has fallen over there, and
how cold it is over there these days. They are having a very cold winter this
year, while some of them don’t seem to mind it, because they have nice warm
homes, so, they seem to enjoy the spectacle that the snow has brought with it,
there are people that are adversely affected, so, they wish that is wasn’t so
cold.
Anyhow, I had to tell my Facebook friends that
while it was so cold over there, here in Brisbane is very hot indeed, today
while I am writing this article, it is 34 degrees centigrade in the shade and
it might even go up a bit more. So, it looks like that the weather this year
the 2017 is going to be extreme, since what is happening is extreme, having
said that, we are left wondering which one of these two weather extremes are
worse for us.
Therefore, while I turn the fan on to keep
cool, I start thinking what effects does this weather brings to us, and the difference
that exist in the world, anyhow I end up thinking that after all the hot
weather here in Australia, it is not as bad as the cold weather over there,
because I hate the cold. And then, how bad it is for those people that don’t
have a warm home to go to, and therefore, I start thinking about those poor
people that have lost their house from the earthquake in Italy a few months
ago, you see, it is only natural that they come up in my mind, because almost
every time that I watch the Italian news, they talk about the little progress
they have made rebuilding since the earthquake. Well they have had some good
progress, but there is so much to do, so, by comparison the progress they have
achieved is not that much.
We could say that the people that have suffered
from the Italian earthquake are unlucky, not only they have lost their house
from the earthquake, but this year is going to be very cold, which makes
everything a lot worse. Therefore, I am feeling sorry for those people that are
suffering so much, through no fault of their own. So, I wish I could do
something for them, but I know I cannot. Anyhow, let us try to describe what we
have seen on the news, about the situation over there today.
The homeless
situation
Let us talk about the earthquake victims and
the progress of rebuilding their homes. At the beginning the government had
promised so much help, that one was led to believe that in a few months
everything would have been normal. But it is not happening that way at all,
because in a few days it will be five months that the initial earthquake
struck, and as we have said in the news the progress is not very much. We know
that the people affected have been given some temporary accommodation, right
from the start and there is some improvement that goes on day to day the best
way they can. But there are no mentions of real rebuilding being started, we
guess it is a big job and it will take time to rebuild those damaged buildings.
Anyhow, when we hear the news, where the
people start saying that they feel abandoned, we start believing that something
could be wrong, so, we ask ourselves what could be the reasons. Well, we soon
realize that in Italy there are more problems than the politicians can solve,
especially now that they are not happy with the present government, so they
want an election to be held soon, which might even happen if they work it out
how to do it. So, this could be one of the reasons why there has not been enough
progress rebuilding, at least this is what comes to our minds.
But that is not all, because there are also
the overseas refugees that make the accommodation problem worse, since they
also would like to have some decent accommodations. Here I would like to point
out, that since in Italy there are all these problems with the native people
already, we wish that these refugees would not come, because there is no way to
accommodate them in a decent way, but there is nobody able to tell them that,
in a way that they understand the situation. So, they keep arriving in Italy
uninvited, and worse still they pretend to be looked after from the Italian
government, when they have not contributed anything to it.
We hope that somehow, the Italian government
will be able to cope with these homeless problems. But above all we hope that
they can solve the accommodations for those Italian that have lost their house
from the earthquake first.
In my view, it the overseas refugees are left
behind, they might learn something that they refuse to admit. In a way by
running away from their own country to Italy, because they are not Italians and
they have not contributed anything to the Italian government, one could say
that they have not got the rights to ask the Italian government to do anything
for them, therefore, they are sort of beggars, begging the Italian government
for help and beggars don’t have the right to choose. So, they get what they get
and they should be happy about receiving what their benefactor could afford, or
they should go back to where they have come from.
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Earthquake
and cold weather continues
This article is becoming more like a diary of
what is happening in Italy now, than a plain article to tell you the story. Today
is the 19th of January 2017. You see, yesterday I published this hub
here, where I was lamenting the way the earthquake homeless people in Italy are
being treated, and after doing that I hoped for the best for their sake, since
it seemed to me that the authorities could have done better, so, I thought that
I had said everything that there was to say, but suddenly, today there is more
to say about them.
Because suddenly this morning on the Italian
news, those unlucky people are getting more of the same, one can only feel
sorry for them. Because they are in a terrible situation as it is already.
There were lots of earthquakes during the night, some of the stronger ones have
reached magnitude 5, and on top of that it is cold and snowing with no end in
sight. Most places are isolated, even though the authorities are doing what
they can to reach them. In most cases, the authorities don’t know what is
really happening, because there is no power, the phone lines don’t work anymore
and there is no water supply because of the cold, that is what they know. So,
what they don’t know could even be worse.
Therefore, we can only hope that this cold
weather stops soon, and the authorities would be able then to catch up with
what is strictly necessary. After that they can go back to what is necessary to
do, so that those people affected from the earthquake could return to live a
normal life. I hope that this is not just a wishful thinking on my part and
everything will improve soon.
The situation
in Italy worsens
Let me point out that it was only yesterday,
when I edited this article and added a few things, hoping that the weather and
everything else would go back to normal soon, but instead of getting better, it
has become worse, in fact, it is one of those situations that are very rare to
happen during our lives. In fact, it is so bad that I believe that if some
people over there start thinking that this could be the beginning of the end of
the world, I would not blame them. Because the tragedy that has just happened is
beyond compression, an entire Hotel has been destroyed from an avalanche of
snow, which seems an impossible thing to happen, but then it has happened, so,
let us continue to tell you what we know in this article.
The Hotel Rigopiano was a four stars Hotel,
set about 1200 meter high, on the mountains called Gran Sasso in Abruzzo, which
are the highest mountain in central Italy, the highest pick reaches 2912
metres, today this Hotel has been destroyed from this avalanche, and most of the
people that were there are thought to have perished, now we know that there are
only two survivors, and about three bodies have been found dead, it is still
early to say more about the rest of the people that were there. They say that
there were about thirty people at the Hotel when this happened. Some expert say
that the Hotel was built in a safe position, so, what has happened is really
something beyond comprehension. But then what is there to comprehend when
extreme natural events occur.
You see, it seems to me that there are a few
extreme natural events that are taking place all at the same time. So much snow
that it is not possible to move anywhere, the extreme cold, the earthquake that
might have damaged the Hotel and trigged the avalanche and perhaps also a land
slide. All these things put together have contributed to the destruction of the
Hotel Rigopiano. Anyhow, now that all this has happened, first let the people
that have arrived over there help any survivors, if they can find any
survivors. Then, what has happened and why can be worked out later, perhaps in
a few months, when the snow has melted away.
Another
tragedy has happened
This is shocking, I cannot believe this,
looking at what is happening in Italy today, it could make you cry, anyone with
common sense and a heart would feel sorry for them, those poor people of
central Italy are in a bad state and suffering. They deserve better, as they
have done nothing wrong to deserve these disasters one after the other. First
an earthquake that destroyed many buildings and killed near three hundred
people. Since then there have been hundreds or perhaps thousands of other
earthquakes, some of which have damaged and destroyed more buildings. While the
people are sleeping in tents and other makeshift accommodation, it is very
cold, because this year is a very cold winter, since plenty of snow has fallen
and it continues to snow, with no end in sight. It is a disaster everywhere you
go, if you think about it may make you cry.
But as you know this is not all, because last
week an avalanche destroyed Hotel Rigopiano, where up to today they have found
only nine people alive, twenty-five dead and four missing presumed dead, so,
twenty-nine people may have perished. The authorities with their rescue teams
are doing what they can. The place is so dangerous that they are digging by
hand, they continue to hope to find some more people alive, until they find the
last body, but as the time goes by it becomes more unlikely that anyone could
still be alive, under all that snow that has become compacted and ice, but the
rescue teams will continue until all people that were there are accounted for.
They are going to dig them up whether they are alive or dead. But that is not
all, today a rescue helicopter has crashed on the mountain, killing another six
people.
The news of the disaster of Hotel Rigopiano
and the helicopter crash, have made us forget for a few days the plight of the
homeless, but they are still there, so there is a lot more to do, perhaps it is
going to take years, before everything comes back to normal. Therefore, the
Italian authorities are very busy these days, as they should solve this
homeless problem first. Here I would like to point out that there is not much
said about the farmers over there, and their animals that as we speak may be
starving or dying from the cold.
I believe that disasters as intense as this
are very rare, so we should feel sorry for those people involved. I am going to
stop writing now this sorry events, because they even make me feel very
sad.
See you soon, in another article, where are we heading now.
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Cold weather and homrless
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