"The outbreak was what alerted us.We left, we saw it and, nothing, get the animals and vehicles.That was what gave us time to do, because the lava came in a very short time ".Thus a family stays with nothing."We have no clothes.I was in underwear because she had just shower, "Lorena says, a palm tree of the plains whose house, that of her father -in -law and that of her husband's sister have disappeared under the lava of the volcano.Now her fear is that this land no longer serves her to return someday.Fear of a kind of exile on its own island.

Everyone lived on the pastry road, between paradise and all of the Llanos de Aridane.She for 23 years;her father -in -law, more than 40."My husband's grandmother left there more than 70 and she is now 98 years old.My sister -in -law also built there 20 years ago.Everything has been lost ".He tells him at the doors of a prefabricated house, in a fence.

If you look at the map, your home fell right in the middle of the early stages of the Magma path expelled towards the sea."It is just where the lava went down," Lorena describes, who feels anger because "the people of the spots, which belongs to El Paso, was more prevented, even attended a meeting on the day before the explosion so that they had thingsprepared for what could happen.But they always told us that it was going to be far, where there was not much population ".He stays these days in the house that his aunt has left him, who is from El Hierro."But I can't stay here," he says sadly.There she is with her daughter, her husband, the dogs and cats she could rescue.

The eruption has caused about 6.000 evacuations and just over 300 homes engulfed by the volcanic mantle.The houses are unrecoverable, but, in addition, the land will not be habitable for quite some time (in human, non -geological terms).Lorena fears that, added to the loss of her home, the floor where she lived cannot host her again: "It is very difficult to return there.I think it will be impossible, "he says."I am afraid to have to live to another place on the island because I wantA protected Malpaís place ".

If that protection is declared, the lands where this family had been re -enrolled decades."And I don't see that just for me and for all of us who lived in that plot, that we have lost everything".The Canary Islands government announced 24 hours after the eruption that would allow the requalification of soils to rebuild, but there are things that are beyond the reach of the law: the same land will take its rhythms to temper themselves.

The CSIC researcher in the Manuel Nogales Canary Islands had Eldiario a few days ago.is that the terrain will be practically useless for a quite long period of time."The land that the lava gains are impracticable for short -term cultivation.You have to wait 15 or 20 years, they are not useful for practically anything before, ”Nogales detailed, which is in the palm by monitoring the eruption.

To that is added the time it will cost to cool.If the tongue measures four meters, this basaltic lava that comes to 1.000 degrees takes up to a year to cool.If it is higher, as in some sections of the mantle that runs the palm, the calculation goes to several years, as the volcanologists have described during these days.Lorena Contrapone who wants to continue her life where she had created her home."I want my site," he insists while protesting: "They have always told us that nothing happens, that everything is fine, everything looks like myths of the people.And they repeat that we do not worry, that everything is cold and that the only thing that could give problems is the teneguía area, but as it is there, nobody lives...".

Lorena works as a caregiver of a dependent person."When we left the house I thought about him, of course, because I know he needs help for everything," but at the moment he has not found forces to return to his post."I don't know when I can take care of the Lord again, I'm not able right now because I don't even want to get out of here, I don't want to see anything".He has only abandoned his refuge to cancel the light of the light "because, if not, they will continue to charge me even if the house does not exist".

This caregiver lives hopeless."I don't expect anything from the City Council or the Cabildo".He has lost confidence in institutions because he considers that he has not acted well during the days before the eruption: "We had no information and the most they told us is that it would be a small thing for the neighbors because it would happen where there is no population.But the movements and noise were for the area where I lived ".And now nothing has left.