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Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul is currently flooded

I don't make these kinds of posts, but Rio Grande do Sul (a brazilian estate) is going through its worst natural catastrophe in recorded history and I need everyone to know about this. Its currently looking like this:

What is going on

Most of Brazil suffers from yearly floods during the rain season. These floods most of the time aren't bad, with water going away a few hours later. Sometimes they are a nightmare, with people losing their homes and most if not all belongings. But this?

This is not fucking normal.

Currently (May 6th, 2024) there's +80 confirmed deaths and 873 thousand people are being affected by these historical floods. Eight hundred and seventy three THOUSAND people. Once again: THIS. IS. NOT. NORMAL.

Rio Grande has 496 cities, and currently, 364 are reporting problems related to this. It's almost the entirety of Rio Grande - and you know how big Rio Grande is? If you're from the USA, its just a bit bigger than Colorado, and just a bit smaller than Nevada. If you are European, Rio Grande is bigger than the United Kingdom. Can you imagine if almost the entirety of the UK was underwater? Because I sure fucking can just by watching brazilian news!

Rio Grande expects floods. It rains a lot in Brazil. What no one expect is having to deal with 2,30 meters - 7'7 feet for reference - ABOVE the expected flooding level, which is 3 meters (9'10 feet). This means that there were 5,26 meters (17'3 ft) of water. Chart for comparison:

I live in São Paulo, which is completely unaffected by what is going on over there, but I need people to be aware of this. Why?

How YOU can help

A single US dollar is almost five reais. One euro is around 5,50. This may not be much to a lot of people reading this, but literally anything helps. If you donate U$10, it's R$50 for us. If it's euros, then it's R$55,00.

If you can't donate, please just reblog this post.

INTERNATIONAL DONATIONS INFO

If you use euros, here's the donation info:

Standard Chartered Bank Frankfurt Bank

Swift: SCBLDEFX

Bank Account: 007358304

If you use dollars, here's the donation info:

Standard Chartered Bank New York Bank

Swift: SCBLUS33

Bank Account: 3544032986001

You need to inform this in order to donate:

IBAN Code: BR5392702067001000645423206C1

Name: Associação dos Bancos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

CNPJ: 92.958.800/0001-38

NATIONAL DONATIONS INFO

If you're brazilian, oi, aqui tá o Pix do canal SOS Rio Grande do Sul para você ajudar:

Pix: CNPJ: 92.958.800/0001-38 Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul ou Associação dos Bancos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

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,ave mone Live bette .

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I was just now finally able to pet our neighbors’ black and white Tom cat

We have named him Steve and he hunts in our backyard

He finally came up to me <333 he kept jumping into my hand for me to pet him on the head. Sweet baby

#he was flighty #I would pet him once then he would run away then come back again #cats #animals #pets

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gandalf: [explaining the horrors of the ring]

frodo: [is horrified]

samwise gamgee: [outside revving up the lawnmower]

#lotr

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I just revived my old iPod touch that I haven’t used since ~2013 after believing it to be dead dead for years and oh my god it’s like opening up an old time capsule. There are photos of me and my friends that I haven’t seen in years, taken in an old high school building that doesn’t exist anymore. I have games that are no longer downloadable on the app store. It’s running iOS 5 with the original skeuomorphism app icons. I still have the youtube app. My contacts app is full of maiden names and deadnames. The music app has songs I haven’t heard in almost a decade but still remember all the lyrics to. A daily alarm set for 5:30 AM (god I can’t believe I had to wake up that early in high school) and another set to 11:11 PM to remind me to make a wish. Reminders to finish homework assignments, or to write my application essay for the university I ended up attending, and one marking the release date for the final episode of Cabin Pressure. The last thing I googled was “how to draw people hugging”.

Possibly the strangest thing is that the tumblr app still opens, but it’s stuck in a permanent snapshot of 2013 where it won’t show me any new posts no matter how many times I refresh. My dash is full of old BBC Sherlock posts from long-lost mutuals who have either since deactivated or got unfollowed or changed urls so many times that I don’t even recognize them. Lady Gaga and Game of Thrones are the top trends. My profile shows my previous url and icon, with only 43 followers. I feel like a time traveler

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Lil update cause it’s been awhile

I’ve only watched the first 2 episodes of season 1 and like half of 3 when they all aired

I’m not a tv person but I think sometime this summer I’m just gonna sit down and binge all of it

Haven’t been active here for a lil bit, but it is still the main thing I think/post about and I check the tag fairly often

I started wingfeather tales back in December and didn’t even finish the first story lol, so I’ll be reading that and posting my thoughts as I go

#the wingfeather saga #wingfeather saga

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Writing is such a fun game of ‘am I actually going to use this or am I just procrastinating’

I just finished writing something that’s going in the last chapter, if at all

#writing #book writing #fantasy #writeblr

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Woobles update

I couldn’t figure out how they made the nose from the tutorial so kinda just made it up lol

I think it’s cute

#beginner crochet #chrochet #the woobles #cute!!

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Hey I’m doing the tiger Woobles kit and I’m on round 7 but I’m about 5 stitches from where I started the round, help?

#crochet #beginner crochet #the woobles #help

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Update I found the bug and killed it with an etch a sketch

I was trying to find the fly swatter but didn’t turn on the lights because I didn’t want to wake anyone up and I stepped in dog peeeeeeee

#still never found the fly swatter #we had like 2 a week a ago

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I was trying to find the fly swatter but didn’t turn on the lights because I didn’t want to wake anyone up and I stepped in dog peeeeeeee

#I didn’t find the fly swatter #and the fly has since disappeared into my room #aaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Apparently they're selling post content to train AI now so let us be the first to say, flu nork purple too? West motor vehicle surprise hamster much! Apple neat weed very crumgible oysters in a patagonia, my hat. Very of the and some then shall we not? Much jelly.

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I was told she pets other dogs but I wasn’t ready for how funny it is

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Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912

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Can Elliott get a life? I need to give him salad and parsnips

#I can never find him #sdv elliott #sdv #Stardew valley Elliott #stardew valley #I need to marry him

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nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!

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At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.