Sunday, June 13, 2010

the time of the earthquake of 1953



Sunday, August 9, 1953. Chanters right Gerasimakis Puppies, Nick Kanelopoulos left stall. We are at the point of the sequence Gerasimakis sings in "to the Cherubim ..." mopou an earthquake has long chandeliers, dancing the crazy pace of destruction, the building of the temple to tremble with movement and oscillating violently and congregation syxylo to hear the terrible noise from the collapse of building frames. Papa John, terrified at the gate etheorei upcoming thyela dumbfounded.

Once the evil is stopped, the operation was over and read the church was closed after leaving.Antikryzontas the road was thrilled by the sight suddenly. Balconies, kerammidia, atsoupia, frames and random erimmena violently in the street, others like onions shrouds, other phrases fallen to read it. We passed the road briefly and entered a square and avenue, people concentrated gaze, the fear pouche companion and souls pervasive sadness. Closer to home, we realized that he had suffered serious damage, but not having to go elsewhere to stay with the thought, if you happen to jump quickly a new garden. Big mistake to our attention.

Life from that moment changed the world. People alaliasan, other ginikane distraught, others lost themselves. It was nothing like before, or within, or vinegar, we nor our behaviors. The fear in anticipation of the worst was dominant. Tovlepes nature to live everywhere. The avoidance of narrow streets and the preference of open spaces, was dominating sentiment. Conversation was reduced to parroting the same old thing, we have specialists, we talked because I had to speak, not because we knew what we were saying. We are nonsense. The damage to the city major.The government had sent a minister for an initial assessment. But damage was done in other parts of the island, Ithaca and Elios Sami Paliki.

He spent the night Sunday and Monday, quietly, without vibration, without disturbance of our sleep. On Tuesday at dawn, but at 5 local time, started the earth kouniete loud if he wanted to throw up their guts, and upon it at this time was thrown out of bed and ran into the living room, keep the mother and father's voices Namaste brothers and sisters together, Watchers destruction, helpless and small to have a monster on the Stu anger rise. The prayers and invocations, many though they were not enough to God stared, until he hours.

After finishing the mother earth in anger, looked at each other in the dim light of dawn, to see how we olasproi from dust, but also because we had no warm blood in us, it was frozen, releasing a weak institutions, resist the heavy shock. Saravaliastike house had become dilapidated now, like other houses in the neighborhood. Whoever was coming into his life in danger, so we were outdoors in the garden, which gave the least coverage of uranium. Later we moved from the collapsed lithium Joined Marigoula Menagenas the garden, which offered her the little orange iskiada. For the record he made a quoin vizita my pillow, I was lucky cast early.

Seismic second day. The state had misosaravaliastei. Homes and houses with cracks, other misodialymena, balconies on the streets, with narrow blocked by rubble, had soriastei walls, cracks in roads and walkways, several trees were uprooted, roofs and tiles echaskan scattered in the streets. The cobbled street Tsaki, no man in the peridiavenei ntougana diluted, and plates to agape, some fallen down and others to onions. Atmosphere blurred unspeakable, full of fear and named more agonizing wait for the worst, so for the worst, that seemed unknown. After all this evil, the destruction is to have suffered, it is possible to expect more? Yes waited even worse, believe that thachoume disaster. He was convinced consciousness embedded within us.

On Wednesday August 12 Feast of St. Spiridon of Corfu. Aid gendarmes had arrived from Greece. The ferry "Toyoda" was in port. The Minister of the square. Fearful groups of people discussing the symvainomena. The mansion was empty by officials other than the telephone, which had been ordered to continue performing the task. But talking about what the task when the lines barely or not at all? A strange feeling of waiting, fear and despair was nestled in each life. The madonna of the villages were badly. Dead, injured, villages crushed by the rocks of the mountains, roads ripped open in the territory of destruction everywhere. Those hours and nothing could be assessed. From previous earthquakes had stopped all communication, information circulated only in person. Electricity did not exist. A radio in the central square keep in touch with the outside world. Full Time anxiety and awe.

Like we had the fullness of time "11 hours and 20 minutes, the human mind is not me, can imagine the confusion of our land, what was around us and our apokatouthe. All in a territory suffering terrible dance zigzags with accelerated regression buildings to dance to hang and then drop the ground, or on top of tona else within creepy creak, others slip through the foundations,Roads to be broken, the rocks of the mountains to flow velocity possessed by the sea, the trees of the avenue to be lifted, you feel the earth moving without stopping. Balance was not possible to keep it proceeded from the hands of two policemen found near me in the middle of the avenue, and out of Emporonaftiki school. Amathitoi from such end of the world shouted God, my God. And if that was not enough dancing, a new seismic whim bring us in we were so low that we are to raise us up, new regression upside down again and stayed high. Up / down, it is no exaggeration thatane 50 points.

Suddenly everything okay. Dead silence prevailed, which looked great time. Been in a dormant state of being and non-existence in our land elevated by 0.60 centimeters. A strange silence and a darkness that no finger gazing. After spending the Buch pouche closed chest, neck and vision and gazed slowly the sythampo in two - three - four steps, we understand the disaster in wandering. There was no state, all ruins, all Flat. In these tragic moments lived his staff sign of the square, when emitted in the SOS synelamvanan naval ships of Israel. Hearing not heard us and looked as if I hear distant, as if you were somewhere else, another world away, between life and the great-beyond.

Minutes spent to recover and digest the tragedy of us. Shadows poumoiazan human shouting names with vociferous voices heard meow. A city that sat violently down, with debris to float, as if he was paliopana washing, landscape Dantikis imagination. Panothe sun esmige the place and wondered "I lost my path?" What morbid agreement that this change is antkryzo? The school was crushed like a card, the fall of my blocked the road to the garden, where I had left my family and whose fate ignorant. I decided to climb the ruins of Dafi road to get to the garden.From God's care all were present. And odyromenoi. We arrived at the small hill, because I wanted to see the horizon and why did not trust the sea. The earth was shaking continuously, we have grown accustomed to say that we are aftershocks.

Tired of spending the apogioma outdoors, we went down to the field of Sklavounakidon in order to spend the night there. It was also other neighborhood in the same mess with us, and he was the wealthy neighborhood of our own mess with us, the quake flattened our social discrimination, a system of Argostoli grown from the Venetian. I took my sister and went to ruin us, the fear left, evil was done in order to get blankets and duvets for the night. Indeed, the learned, what we draw. August is pleasant to sleep in the countryside, but not under these circumstances. We had the sad privilege of being destroyed nachoume our earth shaking all night, and above us in awe thorousame absolute chaos. Near our tears and grief for our lost people, friends, acquaintances, relatives and neighbors. So sit and drowsy, danced to the rhythm of aftershocks, waiting to light the next day.

They had spent five to six hours, we enter the dawn anymore, which was heard by the side of Metela noise from engines. The noise alone we created within our delight, turned up the belief that we are not alone, to how certain we heard, some people came. After a while we look to foreign Dark silhouettes to speak in incomprehensible language, give us water, lampreys and chocolate and obviously telling us courage. It was the Israeli navy took the radio call sign of the square. So were the children of Israel first came to give us hope. I never forgot the child of hope that I got from their presence. Argostoli estimated offering naming the road that went "way Israel." With it and saw Facing the disaster, helped in openings streets, blasting dangerous buildings in rescues trapped in traffic injuries in Patras, gave that had water and courage in life.Such an offer in such difficult times are not forgotten their history is written by people and books.

The next day giomise bay of Livadi warships. British, Italian, French, Americans rushed to help the world nision.Archise rescue the wounded by helicopter and pioneers. Those with special dogs saved many lives. Entered the Gulf and Franklin Roosevelt that the power delivered by air transport of sick and injured to hospitals in Patras, until bread and food to the island. And the Greeks came from Piraeus to the army minister and decrees ... Important to offer the Greek state. And the Kings seemed to boost the morale of the world.

A particular concern was our principles "to keep people on the islands, not to create refugee issue the government has just breathed the adventure of guerrilla warfare." Thus restrictions on the movement joined us and the other established Secretariat of State in Argostoli with unlimited powers on the reconstruction. Exedothisan decrees notwithstanding the existing provisions had given power to Yf / rgo for actions that were intended to direct makeshift housing residents.

Companies in Athens reached the "circle" and ¨ Archimedes "with cranes, machinery, bulldozers and skilled workers for projects would be done. We also inundated by thousands of laborers to find work. I wanted to wish i knew how many hundreds or thousands left the island since as residents, and even how many thousands Cephallenians took the route of escape, resulting in population changes. Etsithelika happened several time. They came and dismantled Yugoslavia and East Germans with samples prefabricated homes. Within this kosmochalasia Rimnicu released and that "the earthquake was sosmos. Works many cash abundant everywhere. The international solidarity was strong and emotional.
2009-12; Avgoustou.epeteios.kefalonia-kai-kosmos lornion.
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