Rain Rain Go Away!

The northern states of Maranhão, Pará, Ceará, Bahia and Piauí have suffered serious and widespread flooding over the last two weeks. Many cities especially in the interior parts of the states are no more. Other larger cities have been affected as well, Teresina the capital of Piauí people were wading through water waist deep. Parts of Maranhão have had towns washed away, and highways have been destroyed. Mining of ore has also suffered a lot because of the rains. Here in Tocantins the rains continue to fall today started out sunny but the clouds are continuing to grow and it will probably rain this afternoon again. Palmas has only suffered with potholes and lots of them. But another larger city closer to the border with Maranhão has had some serious problems with flooding. The prediction for Tocantins is for the rains to continue up to July. This is odd because the rains normally stop by early to mid May.

Please pray that the rains would stop and that the people of Brazil would be moved in their compassion to give and help those in need in these northern states. When the floods came to the southern state of Santa Catarina the outpour of donations and news media coverage was truly great, but we can see the discrimination by the news media and lack of donations as well, the northern states are areas where there is a lot of poverty.