{"id":1948,"date":"2011-01-21T03:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2011-01-21T03:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:45:34","slug":"flooding-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/flooding-in-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written about flooding in Brazil before, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazil-under-water\/\">Santa Catarina floods<\/a> in 2008 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/flooding-in-sp-and-rj\/\">coastal flooding<\/a> in Rio de Janeiro last year. There&#8217;s often seasonal flooding, particularly in the south, but this year has been exceptionally bad. Heavy rains [<em>chuvas<\/em>] and floods [<em>enchentes<\/em>] have affected Minas Gerais, S\u00e3o Paulo, and <a href=\"http:\/\/noticias.terra.com.br\/brasil\/noticias\/0,,OI4902075-EI8139,00-SC+chuva+afeta+mil+municipios+estao+em+emergencia.html\">Santa Catarina<\/a>, but the worst hit area has been Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s mountain region [<em>Regi\u00e3o Serrana<\/em>], where over 700 people have died and thousands were left temporarily homeless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7s-wHJNkkBs\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7s-wHJNkkBs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iAKPJl0YVOI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iAKPJl0YVOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estadao.com.br\/noticias\/geral,numero-de-mortos-sobe-em-nova-friburgo-e-chega-a-717-na-serra-do-rio,668297,0.htm\">Estad\u00e3o<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Segundo a chefe da se\u00e7\u00e3o de Previs\u00e3o do Tempo, Marlene Leal, por causa  da intensidade do temporal e a geografia da \u00e1rea, a &#8216;cat\u00e1strofe era  inevit\u00e1vel&#8217;. &#8216;Na propor\u00e7\u00e3o e na intensidade com que as chuvas ca\u00edram n\u00e3o  havia como evitar que uma trag\u00e9dia acontecesse. Eu confesso que a  propor\u00e7\u00e3o atingida &#8211; em uma \u00e1rea t\u00e3o extensa, regi\u00e3o montanhosa, de  vale, aliada \u00e0quelas cabe\u00e7as d&#8217;\u00e1gua que se formaram descendo em  velocidade montanha abaixo em uma \u00e1rea imensa &#8211; me surpreendeu.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why was the meteorologist surprised?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Want to help Brazil flood victims? If you&#8217;re in the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/brazilfoundation.org\/html_email\/2011\/floods_in_rj\/announcement.html\">click here<\/a>. If you&#8217;re in the UK, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelterbox.org\/donate.php\">click here<\/a>. And if you&#8217;re in Brazil, <a href=\"http:\/\/projetoenchentes.radioramabrasil.com\/doacoes\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written about flooding in Brazil before, like the Santa Catarina floods in 2008 and the coastal flooding in Rio de Janeiro last year. There&#8217;s often seasonal flooding, particularly in the south, but this year has been exceptionally bad. Heavy rains [chuvas] and floods [enchentes] have affected Minas Gerais, S\u00e3o Paulo, and Santa Catarina, but&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/flooding-in-rio\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845],"tags":[1949,13425,13427,2141,13426],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-news","tag-brazil","tag-disaster","tag-enchente","tag-flood","tag-rio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}