[CPEO-BIF] Friulian (Italy) model for disaster recovery

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Submitted by Eve Bach evebach@arcecology.org

FRIULIAN PHOENIX
A historic region of Italy, hit by an earthquake in 1976, provides a 
model for New Orleans' reconstruction

Laura Thomas
San Francisco Chronicle
December 17, 2005

In 1976, an earthquake hit the center of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a region 
in northeastern Italy where my mother was born. It comes to mind as I 
think about the destruction of certain New Orleans neighborhoods from 
the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina and the debate over whether they 
are worth rebuilding. The story of Friuli convinces me that they can and 
should be rebuilt.

The shaking began in Friuli at 9 p.m. as families were watching the 
telegiornale, the national news. When it was over, about 1,000 people 
had been killed in a 3,300-square-mile area, including about 100 workers 
in a rubber factory and an entire billet of carabinieri, Italy's state 
police. Dozens of villages were destroyed; their stone and plaster 
houses, churches and old walls, some dating from the Middle Ages, crumbled.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/17/HOG09G85TH1.DTL

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