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Romanian Rainstorm, July 19, 2005
Piove con vento in Romania, 19 Luglio 2005


There has been flooding all over Romania, with over 20 deaths and thousands homeless. In Curtea de Arges, 2 hours north of Bucharest, we haven't had the floods, but this rainstorm wrecked havoc with its strong winds and possibly a tornado.

(Click on pictures to see close-up.)

In quasi tutta la Romania, quest'anno c'era il diluvio con piu' di 20 morti e mille senza case. In Curtea de Arges, 2 ore nord di Bucarest, non abbiamo un diluvio, pero' avevamo una gran tempesta con grandi venti e forse un tornado.

(Cliccare sulle foto per aggrandirla.)

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Our apartment building. The missing roof plate, made of ceramic and measuring about 15 feet by 30 feet, fell not more than one car length from my car (about where I am standing). If the wind had been just 10% more towards the north, I'd be buying another car. The wind and rain was so bad that our apartment (the bottom left partial window) had about 1 quart of water come in through the windows, even though they were closed. We were the southernmost building with any significant damage.

Il nostro appartamento. Il soffito, 5m x 10m e fatto di ceramica, e' caduto solo 3 metri dalla mia macchina (circa da dove ho scattato la foto). Se il direzione del vento fosse stato solo 10% piu' verso il nord, avrei bisogna di un altra macchina. Il vento e la pioggia era cosi' grande che 1 litro di aqua e' entrata nella nostra stanza (finestra giu' sulla sinistra nella foto). Il nostro appartamento era quello piu' sud con danni significati.

Apartment in Ivancea (part of Curtea de Arges), effectively lost all its roof.

Un appartamento a Ivancea (una parte de Curtea de Arges) a perso effettivamente tutto il suo soffito.

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Another apartment in Ivancea.

Un altro appartamento a Ivancea.

This apartment in Curtea de Arges, about 200 yards northwest of ours, lost all its roof, landing on the street and on four cars.

Questo appartamento a Curtea de Arges, circa 200 metri nordovest dal nostro, ha perso tutto il suo soffito, che ha atterizzato sulla strada e su quattro macchine.

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These cars across the street from the above apartment were severely damaged.

Queste macchine di fronte del appartamento qua' sopra sono state danneggiate

The same cars from a different angle

Le stesse macchine da un altro punto di visto

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Apartment in Ivancea, zoomed below.

Un appartamento a Ivancea, visto da piu' vicino qui' sotto.

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Another car severely damaged by flying roof plates.

Un'altra macchina danneggiate gravamente da un soffito.

This furniture factory had its tremendous roof pealed off.

Una fabrica di mobili ha perso il suo soffito come una buccia dalla mele.

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Zoomed in.

Visto da piu' vicino.

A photo of Ivancea from the northeast. This cornfield was virtually leveled. Farmers like my inlaws in Moldova will suffer economically all over Romania.

Una foto di Ivancea dal nordest. Questo campo di mais era quasi distrutto. Fermieri come i miei suoceri in Moldavia soffrirono economicamente dappertutto la Romania.

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Another factory in Ivancea.

Una altra fabrica a Ivancea.

Further down the road from Ivancea to Valea Iasului. The way the trees in this area were split in two makes me think that a tornado touched down here.

Verso Valea Iasului, dove lavoriamo con i bambini. Il modo in cui tutti gli alberi in questa zona erano rotti mi fa credere che c'era un ciclone.

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Dozens of trees and telephone poles were felled by the winds. The Valea Iasului hospital where we work was without power the next day. Further northeast towards Campulung, the damage was even greater.

Dieci di alberi e linee di telefono sono caduti dai venti. Piu' al nordest verso Campulung, i danni erano peggiori.





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