It's much more worrying than threats to the economy and the euro.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
On the Adriatic Plate
It's much more worrying than threats to the economy and the euro.
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Most of northern Italy has been experiencing earthquakes since last night. The strongest so far was 4.9 on the Richter scale at 9 o'clock this morning, near Parma. They're still going on. The northern citta' d'arte (that's just about every northern city) have all been shaken; even Florence has been waving the upper floors of its taller buildings today.
It's much more worrying than threats to the economy and the euro.
'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free'
It's much more worrying than threats to the economy and the euro.
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4 comments:
Gives a whole new meaning to "did the earth move for you too, darling?"
Stay safe!
Hello, Nomad. There's not a lot to be done about earthquakes. Apart from owning a camper-van (which all my relatives do.)
Twice while I have been here there have been earth-quakes. Both times I have got up, or gone to the window, and waited; and then thought it's passed by. Nothing could be more irrational - and yet that's what you do - short of disaster.
I'm in London next week - nothing to do with what is going on now - but it gives a new force to what we used to be taught to pray 'deo volente' before every scholastic undertaking.
Hmm.
If I were in Sorrento just now, never mind Napoli itself, I might be giving thought to departure.
It's about due, is it not?
Which is it though Yacht: volcanic eruption or earthquake? or will the whole, corrupt, shameless shebang disappear beneath a tidal wave?
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