3 DAYS OF SNOW - The 3rd DAY AFTER 3 DAYS OF SNOW - The 3rd DAY AFTER
A man runs in the snow, almost came to life. He had given up a place of scripture in Milano Centrale to get closer to home. And so 'had left the office to become responsible a checkpoint. The trains were not stopping. Trains do not could stop. He had just greeted by little, his family, a young woman, very pretty, with a kiss, and children were still asleep, with a caress. The abundant snow fell in a flurry that you closed your eyes and you scrape the skin. We had to maneuver
trade.
few flakes started to fall the night before and then during the night but do not resist. The day after the snow "is held until early afternoon and then breaks loose."
traffic on the roads began to be in crisis, and so ', even trains.
The first travelers and commuters at the station for the return trip of the afternoon and evening return home, find themselves in a situation already 'completely out of control. The trains have to Lambrate, long delays and begin to be deleted. The people crowded to take any available train to your destination.
A train to Bergamo, double, those who do not stop 'in Treviglio West, is, however, stormed. Someone asks you to stop in Treviglio, but also in crisis, lacking sensitivity 'and the lucidity' or the "courage" to make the decision. What would happen to
Pioltello if, by chance, even some small train through was no longer 'past? How to hospitalize a crowd of people miles away from home in a station with a small waiting room, with a station new still under construction and inaccessible and totally block the roads? People are huddled in the subways to find a minimum cover.
It 's true the concept of metro can' be a good idea, but maybe not so much in areas where it gets really cold weather, and perhaps should not be applied in a manner so as draconian and 'being done in some new stations where there is no structure and no hospitalization coverage. The stops, in fact, they are not in the middle of a big city 'as normally populated in a line of a metropolitan city.
In any case, the train to Bergamo side and most people stay down 'with the controller and screams not to block ports with your hands (and perhaps also right).
risk, with the docks full of snow, 'and someone goes to end slides under the wheels of the train ...
The crowd and 'absurd.
the end for all the people who gravitate around the basin of Treviglio, they could find a "vent" with the double chance 'of the two stations, now there is no alternative but to get to Treviglio Centrale.
It 's like in a computer system where, until recently, was the possibility exists' to serve any "backup" in having such a data center and close to that in the event of a crisis of the first, begins to offset some of the traffic other. Not now, if it falls to left, everything breaks down.
Why 'you give up all this? To retrieve a minute under normal conditions' (if there is no delay), but in these conditions, with a delayed train of ninety minutes ... The reason has no place in the 'rigidity' of the intense cold. " A
Pioltello people are waiting in the snow the first train go by. The ads will run after and part of the people as well, moving from one platform to another. Others do not move more completely wet 'from the underpass and down the stairs. It 'hard to get on and off. Hopefully something happens. Came from a passing train. It almost seems that has won a battle, people and 'happy. The train and 'one of those new type Malpensa Express, warm, functional and comfortable. The basin of Treviglio and not 'used to these things, if not for a train to Cremona. Looking good, but 'even on the train and some idiot asshole (let's use the right words when you need them ...) has started his own act of "sabotage" with writing (which somebody has tried to erase) and pollute the seats more 'peripheral with their feet in a systematic way, moving across the surface with care, and intentional, but how do you get to keep their feet from them.
Links to one another, all of them, and arrives Treviglio. The abundant snow falls. The ads say they do not look at bulletin boards and the suggestions' cause-of-date or incorrect. The loop Bergamo does not work, if someone has to go ..., maybe, it's good to see that you are a room in a hotel.
I walk ...
Day. The morning in the West Treviglio boards indicate primissi deleted morning trains, the latter lagging behind and, then, after nine "and something", all deleted. Some trains would then pass. In reality 'ads sound, that feel just outside the station (' cause inside are not active) and that, in the days before, did not work even outside creating great hardships, soon confirmed that the loop does not work and that perhaps will come 'a train to Bergamo with great delay.
No news for the only train to Milan with a stop at the station Trevor West (the only one left and largely attended 'cause most comfortable for the time but not as such). In the electronic billboard seems to be time and without any delay and the people wait until 'someone, in the absence of news, with time passing and time well spent now, goes to the Central station in Treviglio.
the Central station in Treviglio the main program does not work.
beeps warn you not to watch the other screen as untrusted. Many people are not even given the conditions of the roads came, the snow falling relentlessly and, therefore, the possibility 'that the day is still marked by heavy snowfall.
The people 'grouped outside, behind the railway station or in local affairs. The docks are deserted.
During the day, in the afternoon, the snow gradually becomes more and more coming to be 'liquid. Towards evening, around 18:30, it rains. this is a sigh of relief to many people and, also, to commuters.
morning after: Trevor West station. The morning after the station of West Treviglio there 'no doubt. The loop does not work and a subsequent announcement said that the movement and 'suspended at least until 10:00 am
It also bears witness to a train stopped on entry to the station, on the Treviglio to Central and Milan.
People are on the square outside the station and are discussing what to do, especially those who need to take the train to Bergamo. People are nervous. Some remain, however, on the platform for the direction Bergamo, almost waiting for the arrival of a train is unlikely
someone falls on the stairs coming out clean on the part of the station from the square.
By contrast, the scales of the underpass were quite clean. Perhaps the many incidents in past years have taught something. But why 'not to commit some money to put a cover and why' do not avoid build more subways like that totally unsuitable to ensure accessibility 'and security in a cold climate.
travelers, commuters, gathered at the square outside, discuss the situation. The news that everything is 'completely blocked, it leaves room for many possibilities'. Someone speaks angrily of bus replacement. Those who are there for the only train to Milan are now in Treviglio Centrale.
Actually 'someone, thinking well and still not knowing the time, and' came from Central Station Treviglio Treviglio West hoping to find some train leaving for Milan. At the same time travelers, other reports came from Venice and Cremona, hoping (beyond 'passing through the Bergamo that does not work) to find some train coming from Milan Bergamo.
Unfortunately the situation and 'equal in both stations, the operation of trains and' suspended and no one knows 'when it will resume'. The presence of the formation of ice on power lines and areas do not permit the transit of trains.
A Treviglio Central Square and 'flooded cars and people that make up a strange mixture irregular.
The newcomers ask for understanding. The sound alerts keep saying not to look at bulletin boards. The central board and 'completely empty as the day before. On the station square, however, 'there' and many people inside the station and 'crowded to capacity. The rain of the night, in fact, made many travelers think of that in the morning there would be no problems. Instead, the railway traffic, and 'completely blocked.
on the docks, along with two long-distance trains stopped, few people who look around or make phone calls.
Meanwhile people screaming inside the square and they are nervous. Has anyone tried to talk to the railroad workers in the building near the main building of the station. It 'came also the news that they will reach two replacement buses to Bergamo, but how will they bring all the people. The crowd becomes more and more 'noisy. Time passes, each one does its accounts (even if a train arrives almost immediately, I get at least office in more than eleven but the possibility 'of the train there'). Many people back home.
The Man in the snow has unlocked and operated manual transmission. The train will pass' regularly even today ...
That man was my grandfather.
I'm walking home. On many occasions I thought my neighbors were dear to me, even my grandfather. Perhaps we are walking together now, I smile and even Him
Thanks Grandpa for the example you gave me again this morning.
December 23, 2009
Fabio Committee in the middle of commuters in Lower Bergamo
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