By Nicolas Bard

That night the rain was falling endlessly, and as time went on, instead of weakening, it was increasingly powerful. At some point a deafening sound broke the silence of the night and everyone was terrified to come out on the balconies and windows to see what was going on. The roads began to flood with water … a lot of water.

‘They came from all directions’as one resident of the Great Kalivia Trikala tells us, a village that was irreparably hit by Daniel bad weather. Some were lucky and were able to leave in time, but without taking anything with them. Those who were left behind were watching the water level rising dramatically with time, and they didn’t know where to go, to be saved.

One and a half years after this unparalleled disaster, 30% of the villagers left to look for a better luck, as everything they had in the village was completely destroyed. Houses, warehouses, animals and estates were lost under the water. “With the houses, our memories have sank.”as the inhabitants of the village say in his camera where there is Greece. More than 100 houses were lost overnight, and another 100 warehouses collapsed. The next day he found the village as a landscape of war zone. Where to start and where to finish. The situation was tragic and people are helpful against this biblical disaster. They were looking for and still looking for a helping hand from the state, but in vain.

Some of the floodwaters did not even receive the first help of the state, and those who took a little money are not enough to rebuild their lives there. Now, they stay in containers and while they believed that this would be temporary, it tends to become permanent, as they see no hope on the horizon. “There is a pervasive frustration to all residents » And bureaucracy does not help solve problems. On the contrary, it comes to put another obstacle to the many that rose immediately after the big flood. The roads were destroyed, the houses of the houses stand upright and an eerie quiet is prevalent throughout the area. As if life disappeared forever.

No childish voice on the streets, no bell rings on Sundays, no car passes there. And while for the rest of Greece, life continues normally, on this part of Thessaly, time has frozen on that frightening day, which has been the previous landscape once and for all. The rubble and the destroyed furniture are located right and left and are waiting for someone to pick them up so that the few remaining residents can make their possessions again from scratch. The houses of their grandparents, who are now desolate. If you get into them you will see the signs on the walls at what height of the mud and some frames forgotten on the fireplaces, a memorial of a long -lost life.

How easy is it for someone to reset the container and resume their life at an early age, with no state support whatsoever? How can you forget these disaster images and create with love and appetite again? The younger ones have already left for large urban centers and those who are left behind stubbornly stubbornly stubbornly and the obstacles of an unfair daily life who did not choose but not have the opportunity to escape …