Wondering how Florentines are coping. News bites cite human error, criminal management of water resources and say that damage to the city is incalculable and will cost 5 million euros to repair. And the city still hasn't fully recovered from the devastating 1966 flood! I feel so sorry for everyone who lives there, especially not having water. How are the tourists dealing with it?
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
16238 posts
I don't think it's such a huge disaster and I think the water service was reinstated.
5 million euro is nothing. They will be quickly recovered from American tourists accidentally driving into the ZTL.
The mayor Nardella asked me to give wrong driving directions to people in this website to expedite the recovery.
I therefore recommend everybody to rent cars in Florence and to return them downtown, preferably passing through the Duomo and piazza Signoria.
Posted by
OP
North Carolina
362 posts
As always, Roberto, you are our expert on all things Italia, and we get our funny bones tickled at the same time! I hope you're right that things will be fine soon. And the mayor is a friend of yours - now I'm really impressed!!
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
16753 posts
Best post today.
Roberto wins a moneybelt and traveling roll of TP.
Posted by
Vancouver, Canada
101 posts
^^^^^^ PRICELESS lol
Posted by
Firenze, Italy
1773 posts
They were a couple of interesting days on twitter, the real Florentine wits came out. For example, the mayor said it was a case of human error. He got replied that the real human error was made by his parents.
Posted by
Italy
3812 posts
I may be wrong, but I think that the lucky billionaires who live in front of the Arno river can cope just buying some bottles of mineral water for a couple of days...
Florence hasn't recovered from the 1966 flood? According to whom?
Posted by
OP
North Carolina
362 posts
Nardella's parent's error - that's a good one! Still, he's doing far better than all the b'crats in Rome have - that's a REAL mess! About flood recovery, I've read that conservators are still working on some of the art pieces. But anyway, I'm an italophile so I'm always sad if something difficult happens to such an amazing place, probably overly concerned since Italians are so resilient.
Posted by
Italy
3812 posts
Probably there are a few octogenarians restorers who are working for free in a forgotten basement of the Uffizi Museum and who can't come to terms that, sometimes, some art masterpieces are simply lost forever. In ten years they'll make a triumphant press conference claiming they saved 5% of an unknown picture nobody cares about. That's the "Berenson approach", your fault.
If you write that a city hasn't fully recovered from a flood i think at something a little worst.
Posted by
Mpls, MN
1005 posts
Roberto you made me LOL! You are too funny!
Posted by
Paris
10425 posts
Roberto, excellent. Thanks for the laugh this Saturday morning!