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The earthquake in Abruzzo ... summary of a "helper"!

On April 6, 2009 an earthquake of 5.8 ° Richter struck the city of L'Aquila and surrounding areas: 299 dead, thousands displaced, thousands of unsafe buildings or partially uninhabitable, thousands of homes destroyed, millions of euro in damages. And did you know this.

Today I sit down to write a month has passed, we all metabolized, to a greater or lesser extent the effects of the media business, we all have known more or less real budgets and we are all aware of that but if and behind this story. I today, 1 st day since my return from the earth quake, finally I would express an objective opinion that I believe the matter, limiting the possible transport inner bound to stay in Abruzzo and what I saw. Among the things to be limiting, and this is the great difficulty, there is outrage, generalized to many.

I will not say how it was organized machine of relief, I still think that it worked in principle, despite great difficulties, I will say how terrible it was the vision of some things and poignant understanding of some people, but I guarantee you that the temptation is strong!

The earthquake comes from the activation of a fault, well-known, and where the trend followed by all time (I personally looked at data from at least January 16): seismic zone was and he knew it.

The signs objectively there but as we know geologists define how, when and where it is currently impossible. One thing is certain, however, what is the civil protection service in Italy (Law 225/92) responds well to the work of the rescue even of the forecast (in this case, we reiterate impossible) but also of prevention! And this work has been done little or nothing. As usual as thousands of times I have to support the prevention can be done in two ways: non-structural measures and structural interventions. Somebody will say: "Even in the field of seismic risk?" The answer is yes.

Go down and you realize that even the shacks of more than 100 years, renovated or restored with the chains held up, those associated with the roofs have avoided that were opened as shoeboxes killing people. Going down you realize that the buildings where they are following rules of the rules (why the fuck the rules are held up !!!!!) (ultimate limit state and the protection of human life) ... Yes, if people do not respect the rules is dead. And then you realize even houses and buildings where building styles intersect: the stairs with a barrel vault with first floor and related rocks in the second brick and wooden roof, and here's the omelette! But the question is: whose fault is it?? Eventually, after a bit 'of reflection I realize that the fault is always ours technicians. Technicians who make the profession unscrupulous or those who work evil in the audience and giving a sloppy amnesties and permissions as if they were administrative fines. It 's always ours! And I say we because I work not bad, do the best every day, and even those who read me because I think it works badly, but since we can not tell who, when and how then do the right thing to say is that it fails the entire category and each of us, if only for a small piece and managers!

Yes, because when you write the technical standards for building the controversy arises over who can or can not do something (and then you realize that houses built on a perfect substrate and geotechnical engineer with expertise govern, true, but then had fallen to a side full of niches such as the collapse of the geotechnical and did not realize here is that the shaking part of the bombing and a 2-ton block falls in the bedroom!) and is talked about the philosophy of things: it is just think of the ultimate limit state? In my opinion, no, it's fucked up, because if the structure holds helmet on your head and then you die a partition the same, but with the difference who designed the house has a clear conscience! But then you go down and discover that someone has built for himself and his family the bunker and the operation has successfully: two little lesson, and all saved! THIS 'structurally PREVENTION!

But there is not a structural one: the one that allows you to do the studies in the area rug, if not that they are doing now (see today's Gazette and on order), that after two months that the earth shakes for you and not the mountains four tents, as they did in Garfagnana. It is true that they had ass and they did a nice Passone evacuating the historic enter, but it is also true that there were no deaths. For the record the issue of Radon. While I was down, people did nothing but ask if it is true, and as if that were not enough dragons to disseminate false information: according to the calculations on 23 there was a new shock, the guy had even alerted the prefectures (or at least this entry DICOMAC turned in) for a possible shock even the 7th / 8th grade ... there have been two of the 4th and I do not think that will work the same because the sum is 8! This is not to say that radon is a bullshit question, however, careful to say things, because then people die when the family wants right account and reason, and when we go home to do assessments of the stability of buildings ( what geologist that I did and I apologize to the engineers that I read but I have asked and I did and now nobody died!), people will ask ...

And these notes controversy.
Technical notes to the next post. For convenience, I am creating a Picasa album to share some photos I took down, maybe someone had seen, but the earthquake-induced landslides in the surrounding Eagle but I do not think if anyone is crap and then I suggest them to you (the the rest did not give them grief it would have lost his Magone and then because the newspapers would have to take them into consideration?

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Chianti Collection at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence is one year old Jacqueline

We participated with enthusiasm and great success and positive feedback to this new edition of the Chianti Collection. We have presented over the Chianti Classico 2004 - 2004 and the reserve Preview 2008 - full of intense and therefore of good hope.

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Colorado River, the big scam!

From Republic environment today (January 30, 2009) the following article ...

and who would have thought?

Calabria In the meantime we continue to crumble ...

U.S., denies the river to the Grand Canyon ColoradoPericoli
The Bush administration has ignored or distorted the responses from U.S. research on water resources. At the expense, the ecosystem of one of the most popular parks in the world of CRISTINA Nadotti
A view from the Grand Canyon
falsified scientific reports to work around the expert advice on environmental hazards. It is only the latest in one of the many misdeeds of the Bush administration in terms of environmental protection, and pick up the bill this time was a natural monument, the Grand Canyon. The U.S. newspaper Washington Post disclosed that the Interior Ministry wanted to ignore, and in some cases change, the leaders of scientific research on the proper management of water resources of the Colorado River. In doing so, the fauna and the ecosystem in general of the Grand Canyon, according to environmental group Grand Canyon Trust were heavily damaged. A long-running dispute. The dams on reservoirs that belong to the Colorado are the focus of a long-running dispute. The waters that feed the river provide hydroelectric power and their flow is regulated depending on the needs electricity in the area. But if the opening or closing of dams for hydropower is useful, not necessarily the same for both the ecosystem of the Grand Canyon. Environmentalists maintain that an adjustment of the flow is not natural because, by its nature, the Colorado is characterized by periods of flooding and drought. In contrast, power plants require a nearly constant flow and, to save money, they want to close some dams at night, when you need less power. The five-year plan. Last February, the Interior Ministry, which also deals with environmental management, approved a program that provides only for a full year, in March 2008, after which the Colorado would have had a steady stream until 2012. Any decision on how to manage the water was then postponed, according to the results of studies cost the federal government more than $ 100 million. But these studies, argue environmental groups, say clearly that the Colorado would be better with more occasional floods and the government wanted to ignore them. In their place, as have escaped the leadership of the Grand Canyon National Park, studies have been falsified or incomplete products, amended the parties against the interests of big companies that own hydroelectric plants.
Animals victims of Bush. Among the victims of unscrupulous policy of the Bush administration We are therefore now also Gila Cypha, freshwater fish typical of some American rivers, besides the beaches of Colorado, threatened by erosion due to the policy of management of dams. In particular, the fish population is the subject of a dispute in the dispute because the government has argued in launching the five-year plan, that the population of Gila Cypha is not at risk, while environmentalists say the fish should be included in the lists of species at risk. The fauna of the Grand Canyon is just the latest to be threatened by the choices of the Bush administration: the salmon were among the first species already at risk decimated by Republican policies for the fisheries and the construction of dams. In addition, the President had cut funding to public research on endangered species, research that, even when they were made, were often ignored. The challenge of
Minister Salazar. Ken Salazar, Secretary of State for Home Affairs appointed by Barack Obama declined to comment on the specific case of the Grand Canyon. However, his intent, in accordance with the program's new president, is to reverse the Bush administration and put at least the same plane as environmental and economic interests. "There will be no more mistakes of the past," the minister have said in recent days, and the environmentalists have now launched an appeal: "If you really want change, start by his ministry, challenging him to get rid of employees and officials used to take greater account of the reasons for the industrial relations than science.

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remains of stucco ...

propose three articles in succession by the Republic over the last two days. perplexes me the fact that the three phenomena that have invested in the two regions must be connected by the bridge. Also interesting is the fact that the A3 was closed for 60 miles and the stretch that actually connects to the area where it should be based on the Calabrian pylon of the bridge over the Strait - nice coincidence!
The finding becomes dramatic when you consider that the first of landslides is high risk area PAI-geological (and indeed !!!!) and the darkened, especially in the area of \u200b\u200bTropea, for the modernization of the Salerno - Reggio Calabria (A3) was made the request for change in the PAI. I remain
stucco face of so much indifference and starvation, and I'd like to know if and how they respond technicians of public bodies that deal with these crazy concessions. Obviously
reflections and comments do not stop this, but for now the anger is so great and the clarity is not as much.

Bad weather, a landslide on the A3 CosenzaDue dead and 5 wounded. One is very serious
Geologists: "Our alarms regularly ignored"
Cosenza - buried by mud in their car on the highway. E 'with two dead and five wounded, in a very serious, the budget of a landslide that has invaded in the night both carriageways of the motorway A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway between junctions of Rogliano Altilia and Grimaldi. A mass of mud and debris come off for rain from a hill that has buried a van moving south on which they traveled seven people, the coach of a football team and six players. Two boys managed to escape while two others were pulled alive after several hours of work. For two other people but there was nothing to do. One of the victims called Nicolino Palisade, 59 years old from Cotronei (Crotone). If she was released from mud and debris from the northbound carriageway, the teams of firefighters and Anas are continuing work to also traveled the other lane. At the time, according to what has been learned by the staff of Anas that is in place, there are other means and people dragged from the mud. The man is hospitalized in serious condition with two other people in the department of neurosurgery hospital in Catanzaro. Two other wounded are in the hospital in Lamezia Terme, but their conditions are not severe. Also in Cosentino two people were injured while on board of their cars, they were crossing a bridge over the river crater that has suddenly collapsed because of river dell'esondazione Crati. Have taken place on the firefighters who rescue the two drivers to support them in the hospital Cosenza. Their conditions are not of concern. Alarms ignored. "We have repeatedly warned of the devastation of Calabria, but no one has ever heard. And here's what happens," says the president of the geologists of Calabria, Paul Cappadona. "What happened last night is the third world. In Calabria there is a devastated land, but every time I try to raise the institutions we come up against the glass ceiling." The case is also addressed by President of the Region Agazio Loiero. The motorway Salerno-Reggio Calabria is a domestic case, he said, "and in fact, I have raised no more than two months ago. But right now there are dead. There are families ... So, I do not want you to be an issue that can play in any instrumental way. Before any discussion, you understand just what happened. Certainly, there will be time to do other considerations ".
Bad weather causes a landslide Tropeastrage avoided by a whisker
Among the new settlements and precautionary measures closed 60 km of A3 Salerno-Reggio CalabriaSmottamento also on the power rail-Battipaglia, broken links
A landslide in Calabria Vibo
- A few days after landslide that killed two people on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria , the bad weather of recent days threatened to cause another tragedy in Calabria. huge landslide broke away last night from the ridge overlooking Tropea, famous tourist town on the Tyrrhenian coast, ending below the provincial and then to the sea. The crash occurred around 4. At that time, also given time, there were no vehicles in transit. Place on the fire and bulldozers that are trying to clear the debris that came close to the hotel collapsed "Nettuno". Invaded the avenue leading to the permanent position of the State Police, closed to traffic. Other minor landslides are reported across the Vibo Valentia province. Today, meanwhile, in Catanzaro, the funeral will be held the second victim of the disaster on Sunday A3, in Cosenza. Meanwhile on the same highway remain many hardships, amplified by new settlements of the ground. There are now some sixty kilometers closed to traffic due to landslides or rock falls. In addition to the North-Falerna stretch Coseley, yesterday afternoon, the prefect of Reggio Calabria Francesco Musolino has ordered the closure of the tract Scilla-Villa San Giovanni. Today will begin geological surveys on the area and at the time, sources said the prefecture, it is impossible to make predictions on the reopening. The result is that on the road 18 at the time the only viable option to the Calabrian north-south links, there are traffic jams and inconvenience. Another landslide caused by heavy rains in recent days has spread to the tracks between stations Romagnano (Salerno) and Wall Bella (Potenza), forcing rail line to stop the power-Battipaglia. Trenitalia has scheduled a bus replacement plan for up to 15 hours for the connections between Taranto, Potenza, Salerno and Battipaglia. Meanwhile, railroad engineer of the state are working to clear the track with debris. Also in this case was, however, avoided the worst. Last night, the regional train 12439 Salerno-Power reported it damaged in collision with a rock, but fortunately there have been bruised between the eight passengers were aboard. Big problems they are causing the bad weather in Naples where Coroglio descent was closed to traffic in both directions and a family was evacuated as a precaution after the collapse of the top of the ridge from the lateral side of the hill of Posillipo occurred last night. Meanwhile in Sicily are still trying to identify the responsibilities of tragedy yesterday when a landslide killed two workers in Caltanissetta. Now is the confirmation that the Office of the City engineer had ordered the building blocks of Via Mario Gori to secure the perimeter wall of the complex collapsed Saturday afternoon. The ordinance dates back to October 29 last year, following an inspection conducted following the technical reports on injuries of the wall. Hence the order to consolidate the wall with operations to be performed immediately, while the City had said the unavailability of the rear of the building Because of the state of grave danger all'incolumità the private and the public.
Landslide kills two workers in the petrochemical CaltanissettaTerza victim of Gela
Mayor: "The Civil Defence knew, lacked the funds" The prosecutor opened an investigation to determine responsibility in the collapse
The site of the landslide
CALTANISSETTA - A part of the mountain is in Caltanissetta overwhelming landslide that two workers were performing work on a funnel Mario Gori, in the district Redeemer. Rescuers have pulled out bodies buried under earth and mud. The third worker who was working with two companions was saved because he left the hand just before the collapse. The victims of the landslide in nissen are Holy Notarrigo, 37, owner of the company that was doing the work of Caltanissetta, and Happy Baldi, 19, originally from a town in the province. The body of Notarrigo was extracted immediately from the mud, while the Baldi has been found by rescuers after nearly an hour of digging. The prosecutor of Caltanissetta opened an investigation into the landslide, against persons unknown at the time, to establish responsibility in the collapse. The landslide, which occurred in a condominium on the hill Sant'Anna, was caused by heavy rains in recent days. The area had already been the scene of landslides and the alarm was high, so that a dozen families were driven from their homes. The situation was worrying, as confirmed the city's mayor, Salvatore Messana, who announced that he will declare a day of mourning. "It 's really a tragedy what happened. One thing is sure - said the mayor - the hydrogeological situation of Caltanissetta is serious. I have long urged the Civil Defence to take action on the hill but was not Sant'Anna done anything because I was told that lacked the necessary funds to the work of consolidation '. " The work had been commissioned by the condominium after the Commune, to avoid danger, had issued an order prohibiting the transit. In the yard were operating bulldozers and other mechanical means. The vibrations, according to one hypothesis, may have facilitated the posting of a rocky hill, already made unstable by the rains of recent days. According to a first reconstruction of the accident, the two were working on behalf of the apartment building on Via Mario Gori, and a small crane were trying to dig a canal to bring water into the storm sewer. For several weeks, ever since it started to rain so incessant, the area has experienced several failures of the soil with water infiltration, so the building had decided to make the channeling of water to avoid damage to the building. Just the two workers began digging, the concrete retaining wall collapsed and swept them. Messana The mayor stressed that "are several areas of cities affected by hydrogeological and hours are 60 families housed in hotels after hydrogeological problems occurring in the area of \u200b\u200bSt Anne and St Barbara because of the phenomenon of volcanoes. "