Oh God

[ishtar79]

Ancient Olympia just burned to the ground.

*curls into a ball*

eta: After a whole DAY of conflicting reports, it seems that while the fire was in the grounds and burned a good portion of the woods, they managed to save the ancient site and museum. It's by no means the end of this, but it's a huge relief for me.

Comments

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about you and hoping you're safe ever since I got hold of yesterday's newspaper and seeing the overlarge title: ГЪРЦИЯ ГОРИ. The photos broke my heart.

Glad to hear ancient Olympia is at least as safe as possible in such a situation.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm perfectly safe. The center of Athens, were I live, is nothing but cement-nothing to burn.

Olympia is not completely undamaged (a historic forest on the large grounds was burned down), but at least they managed to save the museum and ancient site in the nick of time.

The fires are still raging. *cries*

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

Hasn't the weather cooled down a little down there? It was unbearably hot here the last couple of days, but today it's pretty tolerable. It won't last long, though - tomorrow, we're returning to good old 35-40 degrees.

This weather is killing me.

You need rain. Yes. *prays to God to send you some*

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

I think it's a bit cooler-it's hard to say, there's still a fair bit of smoke over Athens. The winds feel stronger today though, and that can't be good.