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hey. HEY. artists. writers.

take your TIME

saying it again for myself. there is no ticking clock. there is nobody breathing down your neck. this passion project is going to come out how YOU want it, in a way that makes YOU satisfied

take your time

I’m so obsessed with dropping “ever since the accident” in everyday conversation partially because of this post

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Death toll from southern Brazil rainfall keep climbing, many still missing • FRANCE 24 English

Weather tracker: torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil

This part of South America is no stranger to major rainfall, but last week’s storms were particularly devastating

Torrential rainstorms in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have caused the worst flooding the country has seen in 80 years, many deaths and the displacement of thousands of families. Central parts of the state were hit the hardest after the storms began last Monday, with unofficial weather stations in the area recording 50-100cm (20-40in) of rain over the past week.

Widespread floods and landslides have caused major damage to homes and infrastructure, most alarmingly triggering the partial collapse of a small hydroelectric dam on Thursday, which sent a 2-metre-high wave through the surrounding area. At least 57 deaths have been reported and 24,000 people have been displaced, alongside an estimated 500,000 being without power and clean water.

This part of South America is no stranger to major rainfall; Rio Grande do Sul has experienced flooding three other times in the past year. This is because the polar and tropical regions of the atmosphere meet around this latitude, resulting in a zone of high pressure that delivers long periods of dry weather punctuated with heavy bursts of rain. However, this event has been particularly devastating, with experts attributing the heightened rainfall to the combination of global heating and the recent El Niño phenomenon, during which waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean become warmer.

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Fuck, you guys, my city's under water

praying that all the outrage I see on live comments and twitter replies carries over when elections come around. the mayor out here lying in 4k while doing absolutely ✨nothing✨ other than make people panic and then have the audacity to say that people need to be calm.

"how long until the water levels lower?" don't know

"when can we expect to have water on tap again?" don't know, in the meantime try not to use too much, oh also we had to shut the pipes and only told you afterwards oops

"so are you going to tell malls and other non-essential commercial establishments in dry areas to close?" don't know man I could make that decision but I don't know man

what a surprise that the man whose first action once elected was to personally rip off posters from the walls of one of the richest most traditional neighborhoods and say he was "cleaning up the town!" is doing a shit job managing the city during a crisis

Temporais no RS: sobe para 50 o número de mortos; pelo menos 300 mil estão sem luz e mais de 180 trechos de rodovias têm bloqueios

O número de mortos em razão dos temporais que atingem o Rio Grande do Sul subiu para 50 neste sábado (4). Boletim divulgado pela Defesa Civil no início da noite desta sexta-feira (3) traz 39. Outros 11 foram confirmadas pelo g1, RBS TV e GZH junto a prefeituras, polícias civis, Brigada Militar (BM) e Corpo de Bombeiros. Veja abaixo as cidades em que as mortes aconteceram. Além dos mortos, há 68…

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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.

This video explains, in English (for all the non Portuguese speakers), exactly what's happening in the south of Brazil.

This is the biggest disaster in the history of Rio Grande do Sul.

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have to leave my fucking house tomorrow cause of the floods and no running water.

I want the Mayor’s and State Governor’s heads on sticks

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.

[ 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.