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Welcome to our article,
Cold weather and
the homeless don’t go well together. Today in Italy there are homeless people,
because of the earthquake and the overseas refugees, they have problems to find
accommodations. Anyhow, this year in Italy it is going to be a cold winter, so,
let us think about the homeless and their problems.
Today on Facebook,
I have found photos from my Italian friends, which show all that snow that has
fallen over there, and how cold it is these days. They are having a cold winter
this year, while some of them don’t mind it, because they have warm homes, so,
they can enjoy the spectacle that the snow has brought with it. But 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 cold over there, here in Brisbane is
very hot, today while I am writing this article, it is 34 degrees centigrade in
the shade and it might go up higher. So, it looks like that the weather this
year the 2017 is going to be extreme, since what is happening is extreme.
Therefore, while I
turn the fan on to keep cool, I am thinking about the effects that this weather
brings, and the difference that exist in the world. Anyhow, because I hate the
cold, I end up thinking that the hot weather here in Australia is okay. And
then, I think how bad it is for those people that don’t have a warm home to go
to, because they have lost their house from the earthquake a few months ago,
you see, 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 progress, but there is so much to do; by comparison the progress they have
achieved is not that much.
We can say, that the people that have suffered from the Italian earthquake are unlucky, not only they have lost some relative and friends, they have also lost their houses from the earthquake, and now, this year is going to be very cold, which makes everything a lot worse. Therefore, I am feeling sorry for them, because they are suffering, through no fault of their own. Anyhow, In this blog I am repeating what has happened in the past, but even today they have the same problem, so, let us talk about it.
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The homeless situation.
Let us talk about
the earthquake first. At the beginning the government had promised help, so, one was
led to believe that in a few months everything would be back to normal. But it
is not happening that way, because in a few days it will be five months that
the initial earthquake struck, and as we have seen in the news the progress is
not much. We know that the people affected have been given other 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 say that they feel abandoned, we start
believing that something is wrong, so, we ask ourselves what the reasons are.
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 can happen, if
they work it out how to do it.
But that is not
all, because there are also the overseas refugees that make the accommodation
problem worse, since they want and need accommodations too. Here I want to point out, that
since in Italy there are all these problems with the native people, we wish
that the refugees don’t come, because there is no way to accommodate them, but
there is nobody telling them the bad 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 the
Italian government can 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, if the
overseas refugees are left behind, they can learn what they refuse to admit.
Anyhow, because they are not Italians and they have not contributed anything to
the Italian government, we can say that they have no rights to ask the Italian
government to do anything for them, therefore, they are beggars, begging the
Italian people and government to help them, but beggars don’t have the right to
choose. So, they get what they get, and they should be happy about receiving
what their benefactor can afford, or they should go back to where they have
come from.
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Earthquake and cold weather continue.
This article is
becoming more like a diary, about what has happened in Italy than an article. You see,
yesterday I published this article; where I was lamenting the way the
earthquake and 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 enough.
But suddenly this morning on the Italian news, those unlucky people are getting more of the same, we 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 happening, because there is no power, the phone lines don’t work and there is no water supply because of the cold.
Therefore, we can
only hope that this cold weather stops soon, so, the authorities can 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 can return
to live a normal life. I hope that this is not just a wishful thinking on my part,
and everything will improve soon.
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The situation in Italy worsens.
Anyhow, the situation instead of getting better, it has become worse. In fact, it is so bad that I believe, some people may start thinking that this could be the beginning of the end of the world, I am not blaming them, if they think that. 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.
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 tragic event happened. Some expert says, that the Hotel was built in a safe position, so, what has happened is something beyond comprehension.
You see, it seems to me that there are a few extreme natural events, which 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 may have damaged the Hotel and trigged the avalanche and perhaps a land slide. All these things put together have contributed to the destruction of the Hotel Rigopiano. Anyhow, some people have arrived over there to help the survivors, if they can find any survivors.
Another tragedy has happened.
This is shocking, I
cannot believe this, looking at what is happening in Italy today, it makes you
cry, 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.
Then 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 unlikely that anyone could still be alive, under all that snow that has become compacted and ice, the they are going to dig them up whether they are alive or dead. Now, 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.
I believe that
disasters as intense as this are rare, so, we should feel sorry for those
people involved. I am going to stop writing now these sorry events, because
they even make me feel sad. But I am publishing this article just to have a
record, of what I have witnessed in my life.
Anyhow, I am going
to stop for a while to talk about the Italian problems. Because I want to talk
about other important things that affect me in Australia, we will come back to
talk about this issue later. Because in our next article, will be about Australia
in our article,
To see more click on this link, The Italian homeless.
See you soon.
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