A big hailstorm

I’ve never lived a “natural disaster” directly, but I’ve seen his effects.

I often go to Alcañiz, a town where may mother, my sister, her husband and their three sons live.

Two years ago, more o less, during the spring, there was a big storm, a big hailstorm. The ice balls were as big as a billiard balls, and they were fallen during thirty minutes. Can you imagine? The result was horrible: blind and glasses of the windows and balconies broken, cars dented, branches of the trees cracked… and all the roof tiles destroyed, triturated to be exactly.

I visited my family two weeks later and, when I was arriving I could see a very different landscape. The urban area was empty of cranes, like a big iron trees between the houses. I had an estrange sensation.

These cranes had been brought from around the country. Many people earned a lot of money because, all the people needed to arrange their roofs as quickly as possible and the price of works went up very quickly.

When I came back, one month later, the cranes have disappeared, bat the estrange sensation remained. What is wrong now? , I asked me? I stopped my card and I looked at the town attentively. Finally, I noticed what happened: all the roofs were new. It seemed like a picture, a bad and unreal picture.

Little by little, people have gone recuperated their normal live. Nevertheless, when the sky gets grey, many people look at it and start to pray.