My city is completely fscked.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36193361/ns/weather

The biggest victims, as always, are the very poor people who really have no choice but to build their alleged houses in landslide areas or live in the streets.

Due to the higher temperatures in summer, when the cold air masses finally arrived on their typical schedule, instead of the common March/April showers we got a fucking Malaysia-like monsoon. In a day and a half, it rained more than all of summer. The entire city ground to a halt. Nothing's open, no work, no classes, no nothing. The Governor went on TV to urge everybody to stay home. About a hundred dead. In the circumstances, that's a surprisingly low number.

[Tailormyst]

1. This is terrible

I am so sorry for your community.

[myrna minx]

2. Oh mercy. I hope you and yours are ok.

How awful. :grouphug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. The Dirtfamily are all OK.

:hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Glad to hear that!

[myrna minx]

5. What a relief.

My heart goes out to those who are devastated by this. :cry:

[rurallib]

6. Will this become more common with global warming?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Here, at least, it seems so. The changes don't look like random fluctuation. Case in point:

Even in the worst of the worst summers, the sea water at Rio beaches was always ice cold.

This summer it was warm, like in the equatorial states. First time ever.

[starroute]

12. That fits in with the second-ever South Atlantic hurricane last month

http://www.livescience.com/environment/second-south-atlantic-cyclone-100311.html

11 March 2010

The second ever tropical cyclone to form in the South Atlantic has been spotted about 180 miles off the coast of Brazil.

Tropical cyclones typically don't form in the Southern Atlantic because the waters are usually too cool.

However, forecasters at the Naval Research Laboratory noted on Tuesday that a low pressure system off the coast of Brazil appeared to have tropical storm-force winds. The storm has been dubbed Tropical Storm 90Q.

The first known South Atlantic tropical cyclone (the collective name for tropical storms, hurricanes and typhoons) was seen in 2004 and called "Catarina."

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Yes, Mexico City is much drier and hotter

and mudslides in the usual places in Mexico are more common

It is one of the expected results, a rise in these disasters world wide, especially in poorer countries that do not have the infrastructure, and why a few are screaming that core economies have to help pay for the damage.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Very very tragic

I do not know how those without homes now will survive...

Glad to see you are OK....

[OhioChick]

9. That's awful...

I have a friend there and she told me this morning that a family member died. :(

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. You have my sympathies. Do you know in which part of town they lived? -nt

[OhioChick]

11. She's in Rio de Janeiro

But I don't know where her family member was located exactly. We were only able to talk briefly this morning.

I'm glad that you and your family are okay.
Stay safe.

[EFerrari]

13. I've been watching that, Commie Pinko.

La pobre gente. :(

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Pssst. All you have to do is excise that L and the Spanish becomes Portuguese, mmmkay?

:hi:

[EFerrari]

15. I'm dyslexic enough as it is without committing atrocities in yet another language.

lol

[Festivito]

16. I somehow doubt you live in the flavellas.

Lent seems more harsh than usual there, like an aftermath from a good party.

It hurts to think of all those people up in those dirt hills. Good of you to think on them.

Boa suerte a voce.
Noa e tudo bem ahi. Triste.

[UTUSN]

17. Rio de Janeiro. So everybody knows before clicking. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. really sad