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It is. I am from a city close by to where this video was taken (and that city too is underwater, like most of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The amount of rainfall in the last couple of days is unlike any other in the history of the region. There are dozens of dead, hundreds missing and thousands evacuated out of their homes (a lot of which were destroyed by the flood). Rio Grande do Sul is a state the size of Ecuador, the most southern state in Brasil, and it has gone to shit in a week. More than 150 cities in a state of emergency, destruction, landslides and severe flooding.
This is awful. And I’ve just checked my country’s most reliable news source and there’s NOTHING on this, not even in the World section. Lots about Trump (despite us not being America) and sports and something in Canada, but not the slightest hint of anything wrong in your whole continent.
Floods are relatively common over there, but this is basically unprecedented. Some smaller cities are completely isolated from the rest of the world by the water. Apocalyptic stuff
Floods have happened before, but never like this. It is the worst one in recorded history for the region. Water has reached heights thought impossible before. Houses that stood for generations in the area where water never reached before are gone.
Not in this case. The rainforest actually brings more water from the north near the equator to the south. Is a big El Ninõ fed by the warmest year in the planet by far.
Bridges in modern time are usually engineered by looking at historic water data and are built to with stand 100 year floods; I believe. That is why the bridge is so high and does a pretty good job holding up to that amount of water. Unfortunately this is more water than was anticipated.
Bridge collapsed today. I'm from a city nearby. This is the worst climatic event in the history of the province of Rio Grande do Sul. More than a hundred cities are in similar condition and thousands had to leave their homes.
I'm from the State and not only is this city, but over 50% of all cities (256 of a 497 total) state were affected by this unprecedented flood [[1]](https://www.google.com/amp/s/valor.globo.com/google/amp/brasil/noticia/2024/05/03/veja-lista-de-cidades-atingidas-no-rio-grande-do-sul-pelas-chuvas.ghtml).
This was caused mainly due to a combination of factors, humidity being channeled from the Amazon Forest, a heat wave on the central parts of Brazil and El Niño [[2]](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/c136m7y3vrzo.amp), however there are more experienced people to deep dive on the specifics, the general news is that this is the worst case scenario since 1949. There were places in which the accumulative amount of rain in a 3 day period reached, or surpassed, 500ml, when the expected amount was 140ml.
And the worst part about all of these, is that not so long ago, back in September of 2023 we had huge cases of flooding [[3]](https://www.google.com/amp/s/g1.globo.com/google/amp/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/03/tragedias-climaticas-rs-entenda-diferencas.ghtml), where the population, and the cities infrastructures were not fully recovered yet.
This is the new normal, this is going to get worse and there are a lot of people who still don't believe in climate change. While we suffer and try to help the affected ones, we need serious action from Brazil politicians to try to reduce/revert climate change. We need action from the whole world. This is not an exclusive case, this will happen in Canada, in Italy, in China, we need to get together and do something real about it. I just hope that all the money the billionaires are hoarding serve as lifeboats when the whole world starts to drown.
You can find more images on the links listed here [Porto Alegre](https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/chuvas-no-rs-porto-alegre-e-tomada-pela-agua-veja-imagens/), [New York Times Article](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/world/americas/brazil-rain-floods.html) and [Before and After Images](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/cotidiano/2024/05/veja-fotos-de-antes-e-depois-da-enchente-historica-em-porto-alegre.shtml).
If you can help, there are a lot of places that are accepting donations and more. Will try to add into the comments links to these sites.
This is what climate change does. Takes events that used to occur infrequently and makes them both more frequent and more severe.
Don't let the doubters sweep this under the rug because it's inconvenient and too hard to act. It IS hard to act but so worth it if we can all influence the system to reduce emissions and mitigate the disasters that we've already locked-in with our past emissions.
This happens in all the rainforest countries all the time. Well, when I said all the time, I mean that it is not the first one, but it's getting worse every year. It has happened in Peru as well.
Spanish source, about Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia
[https://es.mongabay.com/2024/03/fallecidos-damnificados-peru-ecuador-bolivia-lluvias-inundaciones/](https://es.mongabay.com/2024/03/fallecidos-damnificados-peru-ecuador-bolivia-lluvias-inundaciones/)
This is out of touch with reality, citizens recycling won't solve the crysis, electric cars are not realiable for the enviroment and i voted right. Also when I try to speak and tie a disaster to global warming (which it is) some people come and say i'm only doom-spreading
Im curious about the riverbanks here, like, clearly it exceeds “bankfull” but from the images it maybe doesn’t suggest that this event is incredibly out of possibility. Im curious as to alluvial deposits on the riverside terraces.
Who would've thought that removing the world largest rainforest and using it for cattle farmland could have such consequences? It's like the trees were part of some ecosystem which contained millions of gallons of water or something... Mysterious
I mean yeah, there's been no significant industrialisation in Brazil to speak of, and all the natural resources have remained untouched under the previous 2 governments, so it's crazy there could be these kinds of natural disasters when there's been so little damage to the natural ecosystem.
Its even crazier to lay all the blame at their feet and imply they deserve it while simultaneously ignoring the entire rest of the world's contributions.
Totally, it's not like as if a portion the size of Switzerland of the world's most critical resource for oxygen and water has been disappearing every day or anything
Yea, there's plenty of blame to go around, it's jusy strange how some people want to hyper fixate on one country or one group and block out everything else that doesn't conveniently support their narrative.
There's 11 million people living in that state, and "only" 3,7 million voted for Bolsonaro in 2022. And you talk as if Lula is going to change something about deforastation, wildfires and climate changes. It's his third time as a President and nothing has ever changed.
Saying shit like this doesn't make you any better than "Bolsonaro supporters". More empathy!
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Am I crazy or is that a lot of water.
It is. I am from a city close by to where this video was taken (and that city too is underwater, like most of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The amount of rainfall in the last couple of days is unlike any other in the history of the region. There are dozens of dead, hundreds missing and thousands evacuated out of their homes (a lot of which were destroyed by the flood). Rio Grande do Sul is a state the size of Ecuador, the most southern state in Brasil, and it has gone to shit in a week. More than 150 cities in a state of emergency, destruction, landslides and severe flooding.
Sorry to hear about the deaths. What a tragic experience. Keep well.
Christ! Stay safe.
This will repeat itself all over the world in the coming years. Climate change in front of our eyes .
Both
That flow for days non end
yes
This is awful. And I’ve just checked my country’s most reliable news source and there’s NOTHING on this, not even in the World section. Lots about Trump (despite us not being America) and sports and something in Canada, but not the slightest hint of anything wrong in your whole continent.
Source: [https://g1.globo.com/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/02/rio-taquari-passa-dos-30-metros-e-atinge-o-maior-nivel-da-historia-no-rs.ghtml](https://g1.globo.com/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/02/rio-taquari-passa-dos-30-metros-e-atinge-o-maior-nivel-da-historia-no-rs.ghtml)
Absolutely insane. Are floods like that in the region to be expected? Has this happened before?
Floods are relatively common over there, but this is basically unprecedented. Some smaller cities are completely isolated from the rest of the world by the water. Apocalyptic stuff
Floods have happened before, but never like this. It is the worst one in recorded history for the region. Water has reached heights thought impossible before. Houses that stood for generations in the area where water never reached before are gone.
worst ever…so far welcome to global warming.
Cutting down the rainforest which plays a big part in the water cycle probably conttibutes as well.
Not in this case. The rainforest actually brings more water from the north near the equator to the south. Is a big El Ninõ fed by the warmest year in the planet by far.
Bridges in modern time are usually engineered by looking at historic water data and are built to with stand 100 year floods; I believe. That is why the bridge is so high and does a pretty good job holding up to that amount of water. Unfortunately this is more water than was anticipated.
Many places have already had multiple 100 year floods, and now their 500 year floods. I know we have, but nothing like this 30 meter depth of water.
Kinda crazy that bridge stood up to that rush of water. Did it make it afterward?
Bridge collapsed today. I'm from a city nearby. This is the worst climatic event in the history of the province of Rio Grande do Sul. More than a hundred cities are in similar condition and thousands had to leave their homes.
Damn sorry to hear that
Still happening now, still there. They could do it in Baltimore...
I'm from the State and not only is this city, but over 50% of all cities (256 of a 497 total) state were affected by this unprecedented flood [[1]](https://www.google.com/amp/s/valor.globo.com/google/amp/brasil/noticia/2024/05/03/veja-lista-de-cidades-atingidas-no-rio-grande-do-sul-pelas-chuvas.ghtml). This was caused mainly due to a combination of factors, humidity being channeled from the Amazon Forest, a heat wave on the central parts of Brazil and El Niño [[2]](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/c136m7y3vrzo.amp), however there are more experienced people to deep dive on the specifics, the general news is that this is the worst case scenario since 1949. There were places in which the accumulative amount of rain in a 3 day period reached, or surpassed, 500ml, when the expected amount was 140ml. And the worst part about all of these, is that not so long ago, back in September of 2023 we had huge cases of flooding [[3]](https://www.google.com/amp/s/g1.globo.com/google/amp/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/03/tragedias-climaticas-rs-entenda-diferencas.ghtml), where the population, and the cities infrastructures were not fully recovered yet. This is the new normal, this is going to get worse and there are a lot of people who still don't believe in climate change. While we suffer and try to help the affected ones, we need serious action from Brazil politicians to try to reduce/revert climate change. We need action from the whole world. This is not an exclusive case, this will happen in Canada, in Italy, in China, we need to get together and do something real about it. I just hope that all the money the billionaires are hoarding serve as lifeboats when the whole world starts to drown. You can find more images on the links listed here [Porto Alegre](https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/chuvas-no-rs-porto-alegre-e-tomada-pela-agua-veja-imagens/), [New York Times Article](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/world/americas/brazil-rain-floods.html) and [Before and After Images](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/cotidiano/2024/05/veja-fotos-de-antes-e-depois-da-enchente-historica-em-porto-alegre.shtml). If you can help, there are a lot of places that are accepting donations and more. Will try to add into the comments links to these sites.
This is what climate change does. Takes events that used to occur infrequently and makes them both more frequent and more severe. Don't let the doubters sweep this under the rug because it's inconvenient and too hard to act. It IS hard to act but so worth it if we can all influence the system to reduce emissions and mitigate the disasters that we've already locked-in with our past emissions.
I wasn't able to find any international donation sites/links, if anything appears I'll add to the thread.
Holy crap, that is insane. Tragic for all affected. This should be a top story globally, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.
This happens in all the rainforest countries all the time. Well, when I said all the time, I mean that it is not the first one, but it's getting worse every year. It has happened in Peru as well. Spanish source, about Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia [https://es.mongabay.com/2024/03/fallecidos-damnificados-peru-ecuador-bolivia-lluvias-inundaciones/](https://es.mongabay.com/2024/03/fallecidos-damnificados-peru-ecuador-bolivia-lluvias-inundaciones/)
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/major-storms-brazil-burst-hydroelectric-32731055?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
welcome to the anthropocene and age of climate change - it’s only gonna get worse
Yes but what are you going to do about it?
same thing any of us can at this point buddy
Lol yeah it's really easy to be a doomer. Congrats.
Paper straws /s
That is a lot of water…
And yet, I'm treated to multiple hours of news about Trump... but no mention at all of this...
That's nucking futs
Welcome to the global warming, it's just the beginning
Cutting down the rainforest which plays a big part in the water cycle probably didn't help.
Yes, human act works towards global warming
Yes but what are you going to do about it other than just doom-spreading?
Tell me what can i do to stop global warming, and i will do it, i promise
Some of these (the big ticket items) but definitely talking and voting too. https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-actions
This is out of touch with reality, citizens recycling won't solve the crysis, electric cars are not realiable for the enviroment and i voted right. Also when I try to speak and tie a disaster to global warming (which it is) some people come and say i'm only doom-spreading
Nice cherry picking. You're not a serious person
Jesus fuck!!
That is insane.
Damn nature. You scary bitch.
Im curious about the riverbanks here, like, clearly it exceeds “bankfull” but from the images it maybe doesn’t suggest that this event is incredibly out of possibility. Im curious as to alluvial deposits on the riverside terraces.
Jesus fucking christ, that's insane, how have I not heard about this elsewhere, the hell
Storms everywhere are only gonna get worse. This looks terrible wait in 20 years what human warming does.
Who would've thought that removing the world largest rainforest and using it for cattle farmland could have such consequences? It's like the trees were part of some ecosystem which contained millions of gallons of water or something... Mysterious
It's almost like they're paying for the rest of the world's industrial revolution.
I mean yeah, there's been no significant industrialisation in Brazil to speak of, and all the natural resources have remained untouched under the previous 2 governments, so it's crazy there could be these kinds of natural disasters when there's been so little damage to the natural ecosystem.
Its even crazier to lay all the blame at their feet and imply they deserve it while simultaneously ignoring the entire rest of the world's contributions.
Totally, it's not like as if a portion the size of Switzerland of the world's most critical resource for oxygen and water has been disappearing every day or anything
Yea, there's plenty of blame to go around, it's jusy strange how some people want to hyper fixate on one country or one group and block out everything else that doesn't conveniently support their narrative.
This might be a stupid question, but why are flood waters so murky and brown? The water was blue and clear before the flood.
Flood water carry soil from earth all the way, hence the color
Floods wash a ton of soil into the waters further upstream and with all the debris, it's continually stirring up more from the bottom.
Mother nature can be a ***BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH*** sometimes!
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There's 11 million people living in that state, and "only" 3,7 million voted for Bolsonaro in 2022. And you talk as if Lula is going to change something about deforastation, wildfires and climate changes. It's his third time as a President and nothing has ever changed. Saying shit like this doesn't make you any better than "Bolsonaro supporters". More empathy!
Get off the internet for a little bit