#porto alegre

[bikehype]

Climate Emergency, Rio Grande do Sul, 2024, Brazil

[psicochurroz]

[andanteostinato]

05/05/24: Inundação em Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil (Fotos: Gustavo Garbino)

05/05/24: Flooding in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil (Photos: Gustavo Garbino)

[badlclout]

[um-andarilho]

Doce porto alegre...

[sickacademia]

Brazilian's southern state is going through a tragedy right now.

Rio Grande do Sul's hydrographic basin works in a way that many rivers flow into the Guaíba River/Lake, the one that bathes the region capital, Porto Alegre, and many other cities.

Due to the constant storms we faced last week, these rivers started to overflow, which means the Guaíba lake got overloaded with water. It caused intense floods and landslides, basically this is all the área affected:

Second image shows the metropolitan region. (This is an official government website fyi)

As far as I know Eldorado do Sul is almost fully underwater, and Canoas, that has a train rail that divides the city in two, has the left side (the one that is bathed by the lake) almost fully underwater too.

Many cities ran out of water and some regions don't even have electricity.

I can't stress how much it aches my heart to see the world is ending everyday and no one does anything. Climate changes are here, and people are being affected. People are dying, and the ones that are still alive have lost everything they worked their whole life to achieve.

It really makes you feel weak. Seeing the rich taking over the place, destroying the earth while your relatives and friends go through things like that and you just have to keep living because "things will get better". They won't. This is the worst flooding here since the 40's.

Climate changes are real. And people are already dying because of it.

[khaivin]

With what's happening in the south of Brazil now, it reminded me of two weeks ago in class. A class about sociobiodiversity and food insecurity. We talk a lot about agriculture, of course, soil health and water quality. Just got a message in a group saying that, yes, water will be affected by the flood because it's hard to manage all that mud and trash that comes with it; also the toxoplasmosis. And, that reminded me of that class, of the teacher asking us to make groups and discuss how we could battle food insecurity, obesity epidemic and climate change. And I sat there, tired, frustrated, angry with everything because really? I could only think about that post "I'm too much of a commie to have this conversation" but with me was "I'm too much of an anarchist to have this conversation in a fucking PhD class". Greed and power go hand in hand and I'm fucking tired of the failure of the state in the hands of money.

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: yourkillerophelia

[tortiefrancis]

[ ID: Photos of a flooded airport. It has several stories, and the water has taken a good chunk of the first floor. The second picture shows the water reaching the seats on the first floor. The water is brown. /End ID ]

Photos from Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre, RS. People inside are being rescued by boat. This has delayed many people's flights as well and is making it so many people are stuck in or outside Porto Alegre, unable to go home.

[helmlyn]

[dsmsix]

I’m so fucking tired. my friends are homeless. some had to be fucking rescued by boats. I’m on no sleep trying to help groups of civilian rescuers with information from desperate people on social media who are stranded, parched and starved.

you cant tell where lake stops and city begins. this was avoidable, this is criminal. I want those responsible publicly executed and I’m not kidding.

[cosmonautroger]

[psicochurroz]

[sailorgundam308]

Dunno how the algorithm is gonna deal with this BUT if you have PayPal you can try and donate to an NGO who is rescuing animals in the catastrophic floods that are affecting my home back in southern Brazil.

If you have the means and are willing, I beg you to help. USD is hyper valued in contrast to BRL (Brazilian Real) so even a small amount will help us out there.

The NGO is called GRAD (Group for Rescuing Animals in Disasters). You can look them up.

Thank you for spreading the word and helping if you can!!

[badlclout]

[um-andarilho]

Doce porto alegre... 🥲