Flooding in Sicily because of who?? 
Messina, October 2, 2009.
An event severe weather strikes and highly impacting on Messina, and in particular the area of \u200b\u200bGiampilieri Lineup Zanclea. A falling rock is separated from the side that insists over the area, is channeled in a valley and strike the country before reaching the sea.
Score: 29 confirmed dead, 7 missing, obviously under the mud. These more or less the facts.
But I do not do information, I try to give an opinion on the facts.
So many things have been told about the big, defining the responsibility, to blame or to exonerate himself, to download the anger on someone or even to say "you're gone to look for the". I think the assessment is always the same and what has not worked well. Indeed, there are two.
First, there is land management. Beyond the fact that the areas in question were or were not tortured dall'abusivismo, many argue that the houses were not illegal (certainly were largely remedied or condoned), the fact is that there is still no sense that those houses were there, at least the new ones. While there are houses that were there for 200 years and that the development of those countries and of those places has always coincided with a land use mandatory managed in this way (the space between the mountains and the sea is very limited) no I see how aposs in Liguria the same land management, often even more extreme dall'immane multitude of headlands, not yet led to situations like that. The fact is that probably the land use planning is seen as the programming "Geometric" subdivision of land. You probably will not therefore planning a program of interventions, definition of areas for development, management of operations for the defense and conservation of soil but only a definition of the areas in which to go to build and cement plant. Indeed, pegggio, it intends to formalize that you can build anywhere. It is true that the palace hit by the landslide has held up, it is true it was done right, it is true that it was not illegal and it is also true that he was within the areas where you can build, and it is also true that the river has recovered their own space and if it is pulled down. So here found responsibility: it is the fault of the river! Or maybe instead when you planning Geological Survey is actually done? or perhaps when we are called by the administrator of our Geologists turn to do the geological study of the plan of territorial government would be the case study area really am?? Maybe we should make an assessment of professional ethics and intellectual honesty rather than opens to think that if we do not give the opportunity to carve up the land, the mayor does not give us the next time the job?? Why is this thing I have heard many professionals say, and not only once. So first of all examine our consciences.
Second problem: coming down the mountain, the mountain can not stop and now there are houses below. What do you do in this case? The assessment is first: the houses are lost anyway. The second evaluation is, however, people can remove them from below. Yes, because, paradoxically, that we can still do. And here is the distribution of responsibilities, I would say SCAR responsibilities. He's right here.
The only way to be able to peck the landslides that inevitably there will be and that can not be avoided, and not stay there under. Yes, because the 25 billion euro Bertolaso \u200b\u200bare told by chat. With € 25 billion systems there, perhaps, everything you know today as an area of \u200b\u200brisk throughout the country over 15 years, not 15 days. Meanwhile, there are two problmeucci: landslides that does not come to settle in time you are in the same head, the second is that the effect of this strange geological trend of anatomical peneplanazione of instability if they create new ones, but are not in the 25 billion euro. So what do we do?
reiterate that the only way that is not to die in the flood is not be there when it happens. And how can I say? The simple answer is almost like the question will go away before it happens.
since 2004 have been issued regulatory instruments are as beautiful as inteliggenti (to quote a man utilente useless ...). It's called "Directive functional centers" in the jargon, has a name longer than it bothers me to write. It 'still the Decree of the President of Consigloio of Ministers of February 27, 2004 amended March 25 2005. I'm strange legal system provides that there are people passing the time doing long-term weather forecasts and now casting, and on the basis of these different instruments NORMATIVE AND ENCODED issues that actually describe the situation or alert the local structures of civil protection for future prevention activities. Yes, because the civil protection activities starting from the estimate and then move on to prevention (Law 225/92), even if all if I ever forget! So The system includes the following phases:
- meterorologica estimates;
- communication of the various levels of alert to local structures of civil protection (the mayor to understand !!!);
- government action of floods, police and hydraulic where appropriate, preventive evacuations.
In reality the system is somewhat more complex but I will pass this riassuntino.
So where is the problem? what has not worked in Messina? Eh casserole! there are things that did not work!
First, the Directive provides that each region should have its center and to create functional core functional decentralized regional forecasting center makes functional country. First problem then: Sicily 2004 to present its functional center cheerfully if not already done so and take the warning from Rome, which obviously has a pulse of only tied to what he sees from the instruments. Too bad the pulse of the situation, in cases of weather events, I can do now in the process of casting the balcony, too bad but also that there is no one in Sicily, overlooking the balcony because there is no body deputy to the balcony!
Second problem: if Rome sends a weather alert "notice of critical ordinary character (level warning well-coded, which means "Mr. Mayor begins to move!" here too I will pass the riassuntino) and the mayor, "local civil protection authorities," does not know the directive and does not know which means of critical opinion, is a mess! Yes, because if I tell you, however, come on and speak English until I go I tell you you're nice to stop. And whose fault is it?? I would say that the mayor is required to speak English! The critical level is not conventional, and rules! Ordinary means go! mean come on! Although Italian ordinary means ordinary. If they had called the critical level of Donald Duck, Donald Duck is funny though, normed means the norm!
third problem is that in the case of Messina there's more. Yes, because even if the mayor had the wit to go and read the directive and functional centers had also thought well to understand that the warning is not critical ordinary with folded hands, he lacked an element useful nicely what is absolutely absent: the laborious civil protection plan. Wow, here he finally ... Sometime They Came Back. and in fact we are always at one point: monitoring, warning and evacuation. The great triad.
So we are still convinced that we can not identify the responsibilities?
We still think we can go forward managing soil conservation works only with active and begin to become aware of the fact that there are different solutions and then who cares if people do not see the macroopera, the important thing is that there remains dry in the cabbage!
last evaluation: silvio national coming out on October 6th by the prefecture said: "we will make the houses as in Abruzzo, the only problem here is idividuare suitable areas because there are none." As there are not ????? There are no safe areas?? And if there are no safe areas the foundations of the longest bridge in the world where you do in the area insecure?? It seems to me a great idea!
