How to describe this winter storm in just few words?
It’s not that easy, believe me.
This winter will be a story for generations to come, something what we all will remember very well.
For us who live in South Mediterranean , this was definitely something for what we are not prepared something that we simply don’t’ know and don’t understand. People from Dalmatia go for Skiing Holidays in winter months, like to spend some time in different environment and different weather, but at the end, we see it as a trip, fun, good time, we see it as something what is not a part of our everyday life and after we come back to our homes, it’s sunny or rainy, but definitely is not cold and freezing.
Enjoying in Holidays we simply don’t see and realize all the efforts of the people who are cleaning streets of the Cities in late night hours, we don’t see all those trucks delivering goods, don’t see all the work that people do with electrical or plumbing installations, we are on Holidays, something like that don’t bother us, and simply, we don’t recognized it, we don’t think about it, with take it for granted..
But unfortunately this storm told us how regular and ordinary life can become so complicated.
A meteorologist report says that winter like this has been noticed some 50 years ago, so there are no many people who remember it well.
Some villages and cities have been cut out from the rest of the world for more than just a few days. No electrical power, no water, no enough food, supplying trucks have been stopped and couldn’t move, groceries from the shops have been sold out, schools wer out, kindergartens as well.
We have faced a strange situation what makes us think, are we ready for something like this?
After such a warm summer, I’m sure that nobody of us had in mind that winter could be so cruel and so dangerous. During last year, in many times I joked about the weather, telling to some of our clients, that if they come again in future, there’s a great chance that Dubrovnik will be advertised as “Welcome to Tropical Dubrovnik”, but now I’m no longer sure about it. Or maybe, we will have extreme warm summers and more extreme cold and snowy winters in years to come?
Many questions but not enough answers, the only thing that I’m sure about is; I don’t like snow that much as I enjoyed in seeing it on TV.
