Last week, Bodrum was hit by a lodo.
But not just any wind... The sea swelled, the shore overflowed, tables and chairs were washed away in Gümüşlük and Yalikavak. Businesses were flooded. Instructions were given, damage assessments were made, the voices of “ah wah” were raised.
Only one question came to my mind:
How many of these demolished places were really suitable for construction?
There is a heavy price to be paid for sparring with the sea.
Fill the shore, build a platform in front of the wave, throw a table in the stream bed... Then call it a “natural disaster”.
Nature is not a disaster; it is a memory.
It remembers where the shore begins, where the water flows, where the waves crash.
Sometimes the lodos do what the municipality cannot.
Because the sea pulls no strings.
It does not question the license but reminds us of the limit.
We recently saw the same picture in Dim Stream in Alanya. Those “elegant” installations on the stream bed were washed away in a flood. It was talked about that day too, then forgotten.
Our issue is not the weather, it is the mentality.
An understanding that puts short-term gains ahead of long-term planning.
“The complacency of ”nothing will happen anyway".
A view that sees the coast not as a landscape but as a square meter.
Then comes a lodos.
And he keeps everyone in line.
Development is not about winning in spite of nature.
To coexist with nature.
Otherwise every storm is a lesson,
every lesson is also an expensive bill.