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Wet Christmas... PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mário Oliveira   
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 20:09

This Christmas is, among all those I remember in Madeira, probably the wettest. I remember one Christmas Almost like this, quite a few years ago (more than 10, I guess) when at Avenida Zarco showed some new angels with long blonde hair, precisely at a time where it also rained cats and dogs, and the poor angels all looked like miserable, so much it was painful just to look at them.

But I think this time it was stormier, with a lot of (luckily) small incidents, from landslides of all sizes and shapes, streams that flooded out of their beds and invaded terrains around, Christmas lights and decorations destroyed or badly damaged everywhere, in short, all sorts of frights marking this 2009 ending season. This can create two kinds of reasoning: the most paranoid associate this status to the psude-prophetic film "2012" still being exhibited in cinemas here, while people with the most favorable fair-play (?) establish a kind of parallel situation between this kind of climate conditions and the Portuguese country status with all its misfortunes we all know and which is not the time to mention. To be honest, I empathize more with the latest.

One can only hope, and fervently wish, that the most optimistic weather forecasts may come true concerning the end of the year  and that, at least of the 31st December we are able to watch once again the magnificent fireworks display that makes Madeira already a landmark. And also that, even not mentioning the financial losses a rainy New Year's eve can bring the local economy on a short and long term, because of the comments disappointed visitors can make about their fate here, good weather is like a good presage we are all wishing for 2010. At least, to psychologically minimize the effects of the crisis which seems to be still standing for quite a while and defying the calmness forecast on the short term. Because, when it is time to eat the 12 raisins we do not  want to admit even for a moment that our bewst expectation will not come true. As long as we do not exaggerate on optimism...

 
 
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