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| A STRATEGY FOR METEOROLOGICAL CRISES 22/05/2008 |
| (2008-05-22) |
| Last updated: 2008-05-23 17:29 EET |
With a moderate- continental climate, Romania is not ravaged by hurricanes, cyclones or other mega disasters. However, what experts call extreme phenomena or even worse, earthquakes due to the seismic area Vrancea in the south east are continuous threats in this country. Last Winter, Bucharest was paralysed for several days by one meter high snow drifts. Over the last years, in Summer, that is from May to September, the country is hit regularly either by severe drought or by heavy rainfalls that cause flooding. 2008 is not an exception.
Torrential rains, with tens of litres of water on square meter, accompanied by hail and thunder storms have affected more than half of this country’s territory this week As usual, the balance of these calamities include thousands of damaged houses, hundreds of localities isolated and disconnected from electricity supply, rivers flowing out of their beds, destroyed crops, bridges and small passages, blocked roads and closed ports. And Summer, the season mostly prone to such deluge is not there yet!
The tragedy starts in fact only after the waters withdraw. Almost all over the country, houses built precariously in the river flood plain and moreover, not insured become unusable. Romania is anyway confronted with a real estate crisis and authorities are moving slowly and cumbersomely when it cones to helping the affected people.
There is ample evidence from the last years that philanthropic millionaires build new houses for the homeless much faster than the government or the town halls. Therefore, at least preventively, the Bucharest Executive on Wednesday decided to adopt a National Strategy of communication and public information for emergency situations. Defined as a “working guide”, the document is aimed at improving communication between the institutions managing such cases, the mass media and the population, especially in the first hours, viewed as decisive.
According to the Government, a set of clear rules eliminates confusions in critical situations and prompt information on the immediate measures the state can ensure reduce the calamities impact on the population. The document approved by the executive also provides for the appointment of a person in charge with public information transmission. In accordance with the emergency of the situation, the document provides for setting up a public information Centre.
The Centre should have one or two free of charge telephone lines, the so called green lines, other than the unique number for emergency calls, 112 ; these numbers have to be quickly promoted through all communication channels. In addition, the strategy also includes the management of the consequences generated by situations unknown in Romania so far, but which unfortunately cannot be excluded, such as pandemics and terrorist attacks.
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