Why did you build your homes in Romania, good people?

Why did you build your homes in Romania, good people?

"Why did you build your homes here, good people?", asked the President with interest yesterday. Well, this is one question that you can't really ask without carefully selecting where you do it as well as the Protection and Guard Service goons you have with you. Those left homeless in Pătrăuţi-Suceava may have actually felt guilty for living on the edge of the village, where the Siret sometimes swells up and takes some of the adobe bricks in their homes away. But if he had asked that question in Săuceşti, where the entire commune flooded for the second time in only two years, those villagers would have upped and started a riot. The first time, the flash floods got them because they had no dam; the second time, because they still had no dam. They put bags of dirt on the banks of the Siret, which flowed like the Danube does in a weak month. The Prime Minister vas very inspired to not have visited them yesterday: he probably wouldn't have lasted long enough to get his hand on a shovel and "help out a little" like he likes to. ..

The official explanation for this year's floods was provided by Laszlo Borbely yesterday: "Incredibly large amounts of rain; you just can't fight that". And President Băsescu himself arrived with the solution: "You can get it out of your heads that you're leaving the house here. You're moving. You're moving it higher up". But he didn't say how far up. Not up the trees, because we have no trees; two hectares of forest are cut down every day in Moldova. That's why it's also dangerous to live on the hills, because the water will run like it's running off your roof, or the hill can just gobble you all up. Maybe the correct answer would be "higher up on the map, above Romania", because nothing here is safe.

The freeholders that are stubborn enough to put up their adobe bricks one over the other again this summer are starting to be regarded as mad men. I mean... the flood takes your house in 2008, it takes your house in 2010 - why the you know what are you building it on a flood plain? Answer: because that's where the locality is. If in Dorohoi city a house is flooded six times, then there's something wrong with the house. But if the city gets flooded several times, then there's a problem with the dam. The guy who was shouting this yesterday was on to something: "I'm sick of you coming here and looking at our misery. I would have preferred to see engineers come down here". Aha! If everyone coming there would do like Emil Boc does, load up bags, that would be a plus for the country. So long as they do that until the end of their terms in office.

An entire village being evacuated (2000 people) was being lead by a priest yesterday, because the mayor had phoned in to say he's "at another location". Well then, the priest should get to move in to city hall - and the other one should stay in his "other location". That would be the natural selection of Romanian administration. But it doesn't work like that: we're a civilized country, so Romania has to be managed like crap, but legally. That means: managed by these people that build nothing and don't let others build anything. Last year, when the villagers from Marginea got sick of the state fixing their bridge which gets taken by the floods, they all pitched in and built their own. It was ready in one day. And WOW! Did the prefecture ever jump on them, as did the Romanian National Company of Motorways and National Roads, because it didn't have their stamps and there was no tender held. Do you remember the cause for the first catastrophic floods of the 21st century in Romania, when 4 meter high waters entered the Banat region? Franz Josef's 19th century dams had given out.

But I'll give you one reason why these people are taking trips to flood sites instead of sending engineers that way. County "president" Flutur would have happily received the President the other day, with sheep spelling slogans on the hills. But, guess what? There was no more room on the hills, because of all the displaced people occupying them.

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