By Lucia Rotta
DUBAI (United Arab Emirates) (ITALPRESS) – A situation for the moment “tranquilla”, with the people who resumed walking the streets. This is how Chiara Terrasi, originally from Palermo, describes the atmosphere of the Marina di Dubai at Italpress. Chiara has followed her husband for work in the Emiratina city, where they have been living for 4 years with their child, a year and a half, born right there.
The work is done these days in smart working and the authorities multiply the invitations to caution, but after the explosion between the night of Saturday and Sunday, Chiara tells us, “all drones and missiles have been intercepted”. “They are defending the population very well and giving certain information. Personally, I was very pleased that they even provided a clear statistics of what happened, on the missiles and drones that arrived, on those who managed to intercept and those who unfortunately failed to stop. But in the latter case it is a very low number, and many of these have ended up at sea”, explains Chiara, who works remotely for an Italian fashion company. A situation, that which the young Palermo and his family are living, “unexpected, even if we knew of tensions in the region”.
The Italian embassy in Abu Dhabi and the consulate in Dubai “have, through their social channels, provided phone numbers to call”, he explains again. And thinking of Italy, Chiara wants to make a “call to calm” after reading, she says, many “ alarming titles” on the media: “I’m serene, and at the same time my mother, my father, my mother-in-law, will marry. I’m quiet because I know they’re responding very well and keeping us informed, they’re updating us. They just ask us to be safe. They sent a very positive message: that the defense of their population is first for them, and that is what they are objectively doing, even for foreigners who are in their country.”.
The alert messages are always timely, “invited through social networks, and then there are also alerts that arrive in mobile phones, the famous emergency alerts for the most popular situations. Fortunately here in Dubai only once happened, on the night between Saturday and Sunday”, he says.
That night, “there came a notification that said he was safe because a missile attack would come short, and so it was. The message arrived at the end of the night and immediately after hearing the missiles were being intercepted.”.
Explosions were not very far away, because “Marina is a bit of passage between Iran and the American bases.” After a day, that of yesterday, relatively quiet, “this morning we heard new explosions, for missiles or drones intercepted. But not as much as Saturday,” explains Chiara, who still feels that her life and that of her family, “including the dog”, is now in Dubai.
“We live here, we have all our affections, we also have a dog and then move with him, especially by plane, is not easy. We do not exclude, at the time when they will restore the flights, to try to return to Italy and then, once there, understand what to do.” So the unknown remains on the timing of a reopening of air space. “They say, but this is information that I read on the social media and the channels of the airlines, which could reopen them shortly, already in the day of tomorrow. But they’re not sure,” explains Chiara. “I know about people who are trying to go to Oman and start there. That is an option I excluded, because, as I said, with our dog is not easy.”.
At the moment life flows above all through the walls of the house. “The schools are closed, for now until Wednesday. I do not exclude that they can keep them closed even longer, and therefore my daughter, who goes to kindergarten, stays at home. Even those who work were invited to do so remotely, in smart working“, he concludes.
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