2009 annus horribilis, 2010 annus mirabilis? At the stroke of midnight tonight ended in 2009, the year in memory of the community oppidese, there will surely be included among the happiest.
already had opened under the auspices of the worst, having to pick up the legacy of 2008 which, with its harsh backlash flood has left a gift to our city a new (after 2004), and this time irreparable cheap, disruption of the old SS 112 bis in the Ferrandina that.
In its initial months, then you have already registered dies nigro lapillus signanda The day to mark the most in black on the schedule among all 365 of the entire period: 13 January 2009 a second flood hit the area oppidese, causing the collapse of some pylons supporting the bridge over the river Marro, the subsequent closure Road-traffic Ferrandina Quadrivio Amato, and the almost total isolation road in our town.
It added that the storms in question have also caused enormous damage to roads and urban interpoderale and fields and, thus, have dealt a lethal vulnus to agriculture, the main economic driver of our territory.
addition, fault this year there was also the mockery of their delayed repair, and in fact only ten months after his downfall, it was possible to replace the bridge over the river by a footbridge near Marro prêt-à-porter , while, in relation to the road of Ferrandina, the year ended as it began, with travelers to and from Oppido still forced to transit via Varapodio.
darkens this gloomy picture (which, alas, so far painted a single color), the black each hospital who, after years of proud survival to a death foretold was scaled up to maintain an existence little more than symbolic.
Taciamo of the many projects, most municipal recovery facilities and the activation of initiatives to help create jobs, invigorate the economy, to lift the ' appeal of a town in need of revival, and after decades of development in 2009 are still reluctant to red tape, the objective difficulties and ignorance of men, to become reality.
not gone unnoticed, however, the exacerbation of divisions within the community oppidese consolidated, divided into factions (mainly political and, of course), which unfortunately often appears, by the partisan spirit of vengeance, more ready to land the opponent which to cooperate with him in order to raise up their country.
It comes to mind as I write these lines to the famous Paul Verlaine ("Je suis Empire à la fin de la decadence "), sublime metaphor for the decline, and that well suits our oppidum, decadent nobleman who, similarly to the continuation of the settlement, go see the barbarians who prey on the dedicated, distraction or impotence, to idle pursuits very different from those needed to avoid the abyss.
But really there is nothing to save, for oppidesi, ceased in the year? Maybe. Perhaps the transition to the polls for the renewal of the Board Municipal and subsequent turnover at the helm of City Hall, which are always opportunities to reshape programs and revive hopes, though, after six months, the expectations of the new administration are still awaiting confirmation. Perhaps, without presumption and in our small, the birth of this blog (and others that preceded or followed), virtual space as in-depth discussion and useful to stimulate individual and collective growth and, above all, to make up for the lack of a real place at the same duty deputy.
not despair, however, and trying to overtake, with the optimism of the will, pessimism of reason, we start from today, encouraged with the old adage that "more is not dark at midnight." Who knows
2010, bearing in mind that man is an exclusive maker of his destiny, could be some pleasant surprises: first of all, we hope the completion of that great labor of Hercules, which is proving to be the work of creation variant of the road in the district Ferrandina.
E, this nourishing little hope, to all visitors of this blog, oppidesi or not, hope that 2010 will truly be a super year!