Some more excerpts.....
"In the main river port of Manaus, dozens of boats lay stranded in the cracked dirt of the riverbank after the water level receded. Pontoons of floating docks sit exposed on dry land. People drive cars where only months ago they swam."
"An hour from where it joins the Rio Negro to form the Amazon River, the Rio Solimoes is so low that kilometers (miles) of exposed riverbank have turned into dunes as winds whip up thick sandstorms. Vultures feed on carrion."
"Another major Amazon tributary, Rio Madeira, is so dry that cargo ships carrying diesel from Manaus cannot reach the capital of Rondonia state without scraping the bottom. Instead, fuel used to run power plants has to be hauled in by truck thousands of kilometers (miles) from southern Brazil."
"In Acre state, some 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of forest have burned since the drought started and thick black smoke has on occasion shut down airports."
"We closed 40 schools and canceled the school year because there's a lack of food, transport and potable water," said Gilberto Barbosa, secretary of public administration in Manaquiri. People whose wells have dried up risk drinking river water contaminated by sewage and dead animals."
or........
It was Karl Rove & his Hallibuton Weather Machine that did it!
While I do feel for the people of the Amazon Basin......
IT'S ALL BUSH'S/ROVE'S FAULT!!!!!!
Reading all of that can certainly make one feel for the people who cross our borders. As I was reading I thought, "Why don't they get out of there and move to a place where they aren't forced to walk 25 miles for basic medical care.". Then it occurred to me that many of then were doing just that.
That kind of gave me a new perspective.
Sounds a lot like the DNC.