Aerial video of damage from Emilia-Romagna earthquake (RAI)

[winterspel]

Mostly historic buildings were destroyed or damaged, but you can see in the early part of the video where some factory buildings are shown in shambles - alongside similar buildings that appear intact. Strange! Maybe the (modern) destroyed buildings were built by Camorristi contractors with rubber bands and chewing gum.

Comments

[riccichan]

That is really scary. :( It's a miracle not more people were hurt! And the economical loss hitting the region must be terrifying for everyone living there. :(((

[winterspel]

I think it would have been much more dangerous if it had happened during the day. Since it was 4 in the morning many of the damaged buildings were all empty - plus the streets were empty so no one could be hurt by falling debris. So they were very lucky!

The economic loss is shooting up. Cheese is a huge product and if you saw the slideshow of the parmigiano factory I posted yesterday, the losses for the cheese industry are estimated to be possibly 200 million euros. :( In general it's terrible to have something like this happen in such a terrible economic climate - who has the money to rebuild? We just have to hope for the best.

[nutmeg3]

So scary and so sad.

[winterspel]

It is! They're really lucky it wasn't worse, though.

[winterspel]

Thank you, my dear. They're all ok, thank goodness! I wrote more about it here on Tuesday.

I hope you are well! I have only just gotten caught up on GOT, so I've been saving your posts and can now gorge on them. I have some mixed feelings about this season...