It will certainly be a date to remember for many years. Lots of people often evoked the storm of the 29th October, 1993, but I was not still around to have witnessed it. I was now. In a few words, it is indescribable with accuracy. One of those moments one feels a tiny worm facing nature.

I think (and I hope) never being able to see this again. It is anguishing to think about the time needed before everything is roughly as before, if we take into account the roads, houses, cars, structures destroyed. Not to mention what, under the tourist point of view, it will mean walking around the Madeira mountains literally into adventure into the "discovery" of the conditions footpaths and levadas will be. Even because logically priority will not be given to this sector, since a lot must be done under human and material terms towards so many people who are still today living in anguish, and sadness for those who lost their loved ones. In short and without overestimating, it is tragic.