You have just experienced the first misfortunes and the first miracles.
You have already made the rounds of phone calls to friends, relatives, classmates, co-workers to see if they were good.
You have been waiting for hours to someone you know was pulled out of the rubble, in pajamas and dusty, dead or alive.
You are to live so much solidarity and you so much media coverage.
Get ready to several white coffins and many moving stories about how and why someone is saved and someone else was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
You will not have a historical center as you remembered: in fact they'll stop. You will not have a country, a social fabric. Who had a shop or a business, you start to set aside the beautiful memory: one that is hardly collapsed will be rebuilt as it was before. Realized that, for the coming years, the places where you have lived will be some desolate areas. If your home is in danger, you think from now to when he comes to the end pulled down by bulldozers. Do not worry, do not raise all the dust you saw last night: the fire department will use water cannons to avoid soiling too.
At first you'll be amazed that grass will grow on fallow all that loose soil, but over time you will get used.
Get ready for the dragons: those who steal the family golds from the remains of your homes and those who make nice talking to an unsuspecting audience of what they have done for you. And get ready to fight against ignorance of that audience, it will forget in a few months your conditions. In the meantime, enjoy the horror tourism: all those who come to see a destroyed country.
You will live in the company of fear. The swarm will last weeks and you will feel your blood run cold every time you feel the earth shake or slam the door too hard. Indeed, what port? You will be staying in tents for months, unless you have another home or relatives that can accommodate you. Get ready to cold, as canteen and shared bathrooms.
Also be prepared that will infiltrate the Mafia in the reconstruction and to your most unsuspecting fellow citizens who will lie about the damage to their homes to take more subsidies from the state.
Get ready, one day (be warned, it will not be so close), to come into a place that you can finally call "my home". And be prepared to be afraid of new shocks also there.
In L'Aquila there's the "3e32" Committee, started to organize "3e36" committee. Besides, we are similar, you too have a locked bell per hour X.
Get ready to torchlight processions and prayers.
Prepare to so much pain, to console the orphans and widows.
Above all, this is the most terrifying thing, be prepared for a new year zero. From now on any event it will be classified as "before" or "earthquake after the earthquake."