It’s a guy in Piura (Perú) rescuing people after the flodding. He volunteered with the police forces in boats to find all the people who needed help.
He went with his boat and a unicorn floatie
I can’t even, this is so pure
Also there was an ice cream man who went to the flodded areas to play the trumpet to lighten up all the damaged.
There’s a video of people dancing along but I can’t find it ;;;;;;;
These little things in the middle of my country’s emergency state give me hopes tbh
So some of you may have read that post I made a while ago about the worrying situation in my country.
Y’know, the long one.
I’m here for a little update about the events, so if you have a little bit of time and you want to know, then please keep reading.
Also, thanks for all the support ♥
If I remember correctly, I mentioned that the Government was cancelling classes last Thursday and Friday.
Ok, so aparently they’re also cancelling them this Monday and Tuesday, but only in the capital.
Not only that, but since so many roads are closed because of the overflow of the rivers and the huaycos, many products are not reaching Lima, and therefore not reaching most of the factories or principal markets.
For example: We’re pretty much out of milk and lemons.
And because so few lemons reach the city, supermarkets are charging around S/. 20 per kg (which would be roughly around 6.04 USD per 2.2 pounds of lemons).
The usual price used to be S/. 4 per kg in supermarkets (around 1.208 USD).
I’m actually pretty lucky I live in the outskirts of the city, and in that area my family doesn’t buy from supermarkets but from local markets.
So we now have a kg of lemons for S/. 6 (around 1.812 USD), which is indeed way cheaper than in the city but still more expensive than what it used to be (S/. 2 per kg or around 0.604 USD).
But enough about lemons.
I also mentioned water distribuition was being cut in 27 districts. So now people are making long queues with their bottles and barrels to get as much water as they can. The aisles of bottled water in the supermarket are just plain empty.
And some people are taking water from the fountains in the parks so they can at least have non-drinkable water to use.
Yesterday, my family and I went to the city to visit our uncle, and by the night we went out to an ice cream shop he knew and said it was really good.
But it was closed due to the lack of water. And it wasn’t the only one either, you could walk down the street and 7 out of 10 food places would be closed with little notes on the doors saying they were out of water.
Only certain places can still be open and have distribuition of water ‘cause they can afford to pay for water trucks to come and fill their cisterns.
Action which, by the way, has pretty much quadrupled in price.
On another note, the army is now going on the few helicopters we have to try and rescue the people affected by the rivers and huaycos.
Which haven’t stopped, by the way.
I think I’ll update again if something else happens, but as for now that’s the situation we’re in.
If any of you want to know, my family and I are fine.
