picture taken from the web page News 24 "San Isidro Labrador
removes water and put the sun
that tonight when I read
I offer a prayer. "
that tonight when I read
I offer a prayer. "
spent many recesses of my childhood reciting this prayer. Those who live in this blessed land of two seasons-dry and rainy-we \u200b\u200boften frustrated our desire to get to play due to rain. But the damage was not went from there. Those who were born between May and October, the official newspaper "rain", almost guaranteed a shower in our piñata. Then this verse to chorus. You need the sun to break a piñata in the grass.
But the rainy season is spread and how!
The first time I suffered was in 1996. My daughter celebrated her first birthday and I spent several months preparing for your piñata. The party was in a park the last week of November and the rain that fell was such that half attended half of the babies that invites. Luckily it had hired a storyteller, and today, ungrateful, I do not remember the name of the party who saved us! The truth is that there was San Isidro, or crossed knives on cake plate-Caribbean syncretism, which Amanza the fury of water. At the time of birthday-happy-you-want-a-ti ... had the mud to the knees. December came and not looked out the blue of our sky decembrinas Metal framed.
rainy
The second attack was in 1999. The rain fell incessantly and painful tragedy occurred Vargas and Miranda from the state where they died, according to figures at all conclusive, more than 7,000 people. Not to mention those left homeless. The collapse last year there was also considerable, especially in Miranda. Today, 11 years after the trough of Vargas are under water and the worst is that we do not learn .
I've had 11 continuous days of incessant rain of the most intense since we have figures. That is, 122 years. When it was founded Cajigal Observatory; institution which make these measurements. The damage is enormous. So far 34 people have lost life and there are more than 90,000 homeless. Roads blocked by landslides from adjacent land or worse collapsed because the foundations gave land under water. But this situation was predictable? Of course yes. 
in a tropical country where year after year has increased the volume of rainfall not only in duration but the intensity and indicators point to remain so, where over 50% of households are self-constructed and high percentage of them are located in vulnerable areas at the edge of streams or the natural cause of many of them, where there is no implementation of public policy community to deal with contingencies, which dominates the indiscriminate cutting of hills and implementation of slopes against the topography, where solid waste (or classified, or recycled, or collected with the minimum expected efficiency) goes to sewer and neglected drains in the dry season. In short, a sum of factors that a government with loooooong 12 years old does not face, not solve, does not.
All Venezuelans are affected. Those who lost their humble home built over years of saving and working, about to climb the hill blocks and rods, and those who fear losing it because the government is calling to invade temporarily vacant homes, those who are working tirelessly to collect supplies and food to help those who have lost everything that we travel by road collapsed and Instead of taking the usual two or three hours in traffic Caracas, which gives no more, we lose four or five to arrive at our homes, those who do not sleep wondering whether your home will withstand another downpour, our children and young people who miss classes and are exposed to who knows how many diseases as a result of this situation.
That is clear. This is not a daunting earthquake, tsunami, or anything. This is a situation that has been repeated year after year without taking the necessary measures. and capped excessive flows of water in this season but the consequences are the result of what has not been made in infrastructure. It was not planned. It has not been built or maintained. How long?
Images taken from http://www.voluntadpopular.com/voluntariosenred/?tag=caracas
But the rainy season is spread and how!
The first time I suffered was in 1996. My daughter celebrated her first birthday and I spent several months preparing for your piñata. The party was in a park the last week of November and the rain that fell was such that half attended half of the babies that invites. Luckily it had hired a storyteller, and today, ungrateful, I do not remember the name of the party who saved us! The truth is that there was San Isidro, or crossed knives on cake plate-Caribbean syncretism, which Amanza the fury of water. At the time of birthday-happy-you-want-a-ti ... had the mud to the knees. December came and not looked out the blue of our sky decembrinas Metal framed.
rainy
The second attack was in 1999. The rain fell incessantly and painful tragedy occurred Vargas and Miranda from the state where they died, according to figures at all conclusive, more than 7,000 people. Not to mention those left homeless. The collapse last year there was also considerable, especially in Miranda. Today, 11 years after the trough of Vargas are under water and the worst is that we do not learn .
I've had 11 continuous days of incessant rain of the most intense since we have figures. That is, 122 years. When it was founded Cajigal Observatory; institution which make these measurements. The damage is enormous. So far 34 people have lost life and there are more than 90,000 homeless. Roads blocked by landslides from adjacent land or worse collapsed because the foundations gave land under water. But this situation was predictable? Of course yes. 
in a tropical country where year after year has increased the volume of rainfall not only in duration but the intensity and indicators point to remain so, where over 50% of households are self-constructed and high percentage of them are located in vulnerable areas at the edge of streams or the natural cause of many of them, where there is no implementation of public policy community to deal with contingencies, which dominates the indiscriminate cutting of hills and implementation of slopes against the topography, where solid waste (or classified, or recycled, or collected with the minimum expected efficiency) goes to sewer and neglected drains in the dry season. In short, a sum of factors that a government with loooooong 12 years old does not face, not solve, does not. 
All Venezuelans are affected. Those who lost their humble home built over years of saving and working, about to climb the hill blocks and rods, and those who fear losing it because the government is calling to invade temporarily vacant homes, those who are working tirelessly to collect supplies and food to help those who have lost everything that we travel by road collapsed and Instead of taking the usual two or three hours in traffic Caracas, which gives no more, we lose four or five to arrive at our homes, those who do not sleep wondering whether your home will withstand another downpour, our children and young people who miss classes and are exposed to who knows how many diseases as a result of this situation. That is clear. This is not a daunting earthquake, tsunami, or anything. This is a situation that has been repeated year after year without taking the necessary measures. and capped excessive flows of water in this season but the consequences are the result of what has not been made in infrastructure. It was not planned. It has not been built or maintained. How long?
Images taken from http://www.voluntadpopular.com/voluntariosenred/?tag=caracas
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