eu falo muito palavrão, eu falo muito mal, eu falo muito mesmo sem saber o que estou falando
Real life update: well, it stopped raining, and the tide is retreating. [If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I made a f-locked post three days ago, but I removed the really personal info and made it public now.]
The Washington Post has an update that's more or less sound. Death toll this morning is 223 state-wide, with the majority of them being here in Niterói. That number might climb to over 400 as the rescuers find more victims though. Over fifty thousand people have either lost their homes completely in the mudslides/floods, or had their places condemned and were forced to leave.
Help is coming from everywhere. Federal government is sending money; the USA donated 50 million dollars to help relocate the families who lost their homes; the wonderful wonderful people from everywhere in Brazil have been donating tons and tons of food and clothes and everything. [So much love for the city of São Paulo, and the São Paulo Football Club right now!]
I'm a cynic who usually don't really believe things are ever gonna change -- the huge poverty gap, the corruption of politics, the almost inherent apathy of Brazilian's society -- but maybe this time, with the entire world's eyes on us for the next six years, what with World Cup and Olympics* and everything... maybe this time things will happen for a change.
Anyway. Thanks everyone for the comments, emails, PMs, v-gifts, I truly appreciate them, and I love you guys very much. ♥♥♥♥♥ As I said before, my family and friends are all fine.
* It's been bugging me MAJORLY that every. single. article about Rio in the foreign press mentions the Cup and the Games. It's like we're now Oscar Nominees®: "2016 Olympic Games Host® Rio de Janeiro blah blah blah, oh yeah, there was a flood and people died". Is it big that the two major world sports events are coming here? It sure is. Does it define everything about this place? OH HELL TO THE NO. More importantly: neither event is gonna happen during rain season. Go google "Waters of March", dear international journalists, apparently it's a famous song or something? And, you know. Fuck you, foreign press.
The Washington Post has an update that's more or less sound. Death toll this morning is 223 state-wide, with the majority of them being here in Niterói. That number might climb to over 400 as the rescuers find more victims though. Over fifty thousand people have either lost their homes completely in the mudslides/floods, or had their places condemned and were forced to leave.
Help is coming from everywhere. Federal government is sending money; the USA donated 50 million dollars to help relocate the families who lost their homes; the wonderful wonderful people from everywhere in Brazil have been donating tons and tons of food and clothes and everything. [So much love for the city of São Paulo, and the São Paulo Football Club right now!]
I'm a cynic who usually don't really believe things are ever gonna change -- the huge poverty gap, the corruption of politics, the almost inherent apathy of Brazilian's society -- but maybe this time, with the entire world's eyes on us for the next six years, what with World Cup and Olympics* and everything... maybe this time things will happen for a change.
Anyway. Thanks everyone for the comments, emails, PMs, v-gifts, I truly appreciate them, and I love you guys very much. ♥♥♥♥♥ As I said before, my family and friends are all fine.
* It's been bugging me MAJORLY that every. single. article about Rio in the foreign press mentions the Cup and the Games. It's like we're now Oscar Nominees®: "2016 Olympic Games Host® Rio de Janeiro blah blah blah, oh yeah, there was a flood and people died". Is it big that the two major world sports events are coming here? It sure is. Does it define everything about this place? OH HELL TO THE NO. More importantly: neither event is gonna happen during rain season. Go google "Waters of March", dear international journalists, apparently it's a famous song or something? And, you know. Fuck you, foreign press.