Terrorism and Rage
The last four days I along with over 10 million Greeks have been living a surreal nightmare. Brushfires helped along by arsonists have been raging all over the country and at the time I am writing these words over 60 of my fellow citizens have lost their lives and unfortunately the body count is bound to grow. I am beset by a feeling of helplessness sitting in my living room watching live coverage of the over 170 fires across the land, while my parents are stuck in Euboea, not necessarily under threat at this time but cut off from land access to Athens for the better part of 48 hours as the fires in Aliveri and Amarinthos raged on. While I could talk to my parents on the phone, I had no physical access to them. When at some stage I could reach them, we decided that I stay in Athens to keep a watchful eye over our properties in the capital. Low and behold, a huge fire broke out in Athens and soon the streets and our homes were filled with ashes like snowflakes in August. I did cry a lot...