{"id":70347,"date":"2022-05-20T06:57:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=70347"},"modified":"2022-06-24T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:10:07","slug":"baixada-fluminense-began-the-month-of-april-underwater-voicesfromsocialmedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=70347","title":{"rendered":"Greater Rio de Janeiro Began the Month of April Underwater #VoicesFromSocialMedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"This article is part of RioOnWatch\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>#VoicesFromSocialMedia<\/em><\/a> series, which compiles perspectives posted on social media by favela residents and activists about events and societal themes that arise. It is also part of a series<\/a>\u00a0created in partnership with the\u00a0Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies<\/a>\u00a0at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the\u00a0Digital Brazil Project<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0climate impacts and affirmative action in the favelas for RioOnWatch.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The month of April started with heavy rains across the entire state of Rio de Janeiro. In Angra dos Reis, a city on Rio\u2019s Costa Verde coastline, 800 mm of rain fell in 48 hours<\/a>. Almost half of the expected rainfall for an entire year fell in three days. According to the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN<\/a>), this is an unprecedented level of precipitation. In the coastal city of Paraty<\/a>, the downpour also left a trail of destruction, with people\u2019s homes destroyed and electricity supplies cut off, not to mention landslides that caused changes to the landscape of beaches and hills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Before and after photos of Itagua\u00e7u beach show the devastation caused by rains in Ilha Grande and on the Costa Verde coastline. Photo: Reproduction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Historically, in Brazil urban peripheries are the areas that suffer most due to the negligence<\/a> of public authorities, who do not guarantee the necessary sanitation<\/a> policies to prevent accidents. In the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area’s\u00a0Baixada Fluminense<\/a> region, a portrait of this disregard, the Instagram account of Nova Igua\u00e7u Depress\u00e3o<\/a><\/em> covered devastation caused by the storms in the Nova Igua\u00e7u and neighboring Mesquita<\/a> municipalities in real time. Most of the municipalities of the Baixada Fluminense declared a state of emergency. Residents are fed up with this recurring situation, as shown through #VoicesFromSocialMedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baixada Fluminense Sunken in Chaos<\/h3>\n

As soon as the first raindrops fell on Rio, images of the devastation were being shared. Baixada Fluminense residents faced a difficult evening on Friday, April 1, and woke up to the damage left by the rain. The Nova Igua\u00e7u Depress\u00e3o<\/em> Instagram account shared images of workers returning home by bus, with water threatening to flood the vehicle.<\/p>\n

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Uma publica\u00e7\u00e3o compartilhada por NID – Nova Igua\u00e7u Depress\u00e3o (@novaiguacudepressao)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n