It causes not only joy but also pain to find that after receiving the alert, neither the employers sent the workers home nor did any of them fail to encourage those who were missing to join, leaving them at risk of danger.
The water grew and swelled over the land, until it covered the highest mountains under the sky."
This is not the time to take the dead and destruction to task. It is not. Politicians should probably understand that it is not now or ever, although some have already tried. There is no human way to contain what has happened nor is there sufficient capacity to deal with the effects of a force of nature of such magnitude immediately. I would have surpassed them all. That is why it is a good time to realize that those dead, so many dead!, are everyone’s dead and that among those dead, so many dead!, there were some and others because in the face of tragedy we are all not just human beings. humans but brothers in danger and misfortune.
The future is catching up with us. Let’s not be daffodils, we have never managed to fulfill the divine mandate, we have never been able to dominate the earth or its unleashed forces. We have only been able to hurt it, to make it hostile, to make it more dangerous. That doesn’t have much of a choice either, other than trying to keep the threat from growing so quickly and respecting us for as long as possible. That is what public officials of all kinds have to work on: saving the next lives because there will be more and increasingly deadly catastrophes. I do not intend to be apocalyptic but realistic.
Scientists are running out of color scales. That of the AEMET ends at 300 liters per square meter, but on Tuesday they fell to 500 liters per square meter in eight hours. Maximum alert. Red alert. What word do we use when red is too small? How do we alert authorities, businessmen, society and citizens of the brutality to which nature is going to subject us? It is necessary to look for the word after the red because, unfortunately, we will have to pronounce it more times.
We must agree on colors and protocols that are mandatory, not just suggested, and only our representatives can do that. It is true that it is about warning, but not only. Do not be afraid to use the methods at your disposal and do not be afraid of being criticized for using them if then the untamable nature mocks us and turns around and does not discharge what we thought or spare us the strongest pain. Alert and specify the alert. Using the word after the red has to immediately make it understood, without saying it, that the circumstance is so exceptional that it deserves exceptional measures. It must be clear that the word after red requires the closure of educational centers and also work centers that are not essential for emergencies. It causes not only rejoicing but also pain to find that after receiving the alert, neither the employers sent the workers home nor did any of them fail to encourage those who were missing to join, leaving them at the risk of danger. Scientific notices must be directly related to administrative indications. It is not just about warning, but about ensuring that human lives are protected beyond greed, disbelief, recklessness and stupidity. Regulate it, agree to it, comply with it.
As the phenomena are predictably more extreme and violent due to our unfortunate action on the planet, each area must be specifically prepared and trained for those that may most likely occur in its territory (damages, earthquakes, eruptions, hurricanes, storms, snowfall… .). This means that the inhabitants of the area must know the most appropriate mechanics to protect themselves in the event of a serious alert. There is little point in explaining to people how to abandon a car that is swept away or flooded, when hundreds of people have already had to deal with the situation on some occasions with disastrous consequences. Train the population, carry out drills, and provide civil protection training also in small towns that are further away from rescue services and that in most cases must fend for themselves until the arrival of reinforcements. A countryman from Almería or Granada has to know where to be safe from an earthquake, a Canarian how to act in an eruption, a plateau how to handle a snowfall like Filomena, those on the riverbank in case of floods and so on, place by place.
Nor will it be amiss if the population is urged to create a kind of emergency backpack in which those things that technology has removed from our lives are present: radio, batteries, flashlights, candles, matches… I am not the one to Completing the list more does not take up space and can be important to overcome adverse circumstances. Now that we carry everything on our cell phones, if it runs out of battery and the electricity has been cut off, the world could fall on us until the authorities and emergency services get us out of trouble.
Let’s talk about the population, we also have our own thing. It cannot be that meteorologists and authorities are rebuked or accused of warning us for nothing. Nature is movement. Look at Florida, if the tornado eventually deflects a little and you’re lucky enough to not get hit as badly as you anticipated, does it make sense to complain because the authorities will tell you to nail up your doors and windows or evacuate you? Do we remember the amount of stupid things that were said when all our cell phones were vibrated a couple of years ago? Let’s collaborate in our own protection, let’s not play Peter and if the wolf doesn’t come, let’s thank heaven if he continues to be a protector.
They should take care of all this and not so many other things. That is why I am not surprised that they have decided not to make political statements during the days of official mourning, because they are aware that most of the time what they say, what they shout at each other, does not at all seem to serve politics and does too much into the struggle for power. We have to look for the word that comes after red so that it is not black. There are almost a hundred victims. A catastrophe in human terms of enormous proportions for a European country. Since the deadly attacks of 11-M, such a mournful day has not been experienced in our country.
We are not going to prevent nature from becoming enervated against our mistreatment, let us try to minimize its cost in the most valuable thing we have: lives.
In memoriam.
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