Source: https://www.barrons.com/news/death-toll-from-rain-flooding-in-southern-brazil-rises-to-13-bc96d822
Entire communities in #RioGrande do Sul have been completely cut off as persistent rains have destroyed bridges and blocked roads, and left towns without even telephone or internet services.
In August I need to travel to #RioGrande, a small #habour city in northern #Brazil, it is in #RioGrandeDoSul close to Uruguay.
I wonder about 2 things.
I drove in many countries and am very well aware of chaotic traffic around the world. My driving skills were formed in China, Europe, Africa and lately in Thailand, so I guess Brazil will be no problem traffic wise.
Any inside on this area of Brazil is welcome too!
#riogrande
July 21, 2021
THE RIO GRANDE
I have recently been thinking about the Rio Grande
and saw it in my mind.
How you are on one side of it, and I am on the other side.
In this life, the leap you would have to make across it, to me,
is much too much, and I will not ask it, or expect it.
I am accustomed to great leaps, and could make it across to you.
But I fear I would cause you hardships, like someone
from vast outer space who has landed in your life-
a life where all the rooftops are the same, the same color
and the houses are close together.
Everyone is close together.
You would be looking over your shoulder
just to have a cup of coffee with me in a cafe.
And then I thought of a bridge across the Rio Grande.
Across the great divide.
It is an invisible bridge built by mind and heart.
You cross over it to be with me. I cross over it to be with you.
And, so wonderfully, we meet in the middle of our bridge,
just to be together, in our own space.
