Earthquake-prone Italy has a history of rebuilding without learning from the past. Geologists are not alone in hoping this time will be different. There are signs it may be, reports Megan Williams from Accumoli and Rome.
In the tent camp below the destroyed town of Accumoli, parents chat listlessly in a makeshift community center, while kids play nearby with Red Cross volunteers. It’s just one of the many small, blue “tentopoli” – tent cities – that dot the lush, green valley below the hilltop towns where almost 300 people died in Wednesday’s devastating earthquake. One mother, a woman named Anna, who didn’t want to give her last name, says she hopes her stay here will be brief. “For goodness … continue reading
