Comments on: Putting the “Snowpocalypse” into perspective with maps http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/02/18/putting-the-snowpocalypse-into-perspective-with-maps/ Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant in Texas http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/02/18/putting-the-snowpocalypse-into-perspective-with-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Grant in Texas Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:13:04 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2608#comment-153 Last Tuesday, on the time/temperature signs that line the beaches of Rio, for a second it actually read 47°C (over 115°F) in a summer there of record breaking heat. This signpost was next to the very hot beach sands, so hot I was burning my feet through sandals. This didn't stop tens of thousands of folks pitching umbrellas over folding chairs on the beach. The beach water, due to South Atlantic current coming from Antarctica, was cool just as is the California coast with its currents from Alaska, so surprisingly not that many were in the water. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h1MORJNEkoFFW212KtDumevq_cXwD9DR5IUG1 Besides the sweltering heat being uncomfortable, I was robbed twice during Carnaval in the Ipanema bloco parties where nearly naked people were shoulder-to-shoulder. First a guy tried to cut out my wallet with a box cutter but I grabbed my wallet in time and saved it without getting the back of my hand sliced, however those cargo shorts are ruined. On the next night I left my wallet with credit cards in my room safe and divided loose folding money into several pockets on another pair of shorts. However, during a shoving match a guy was able to rip open the Velcro on one pocket and got $10 but if he had targeted my left pocket would have gotten $60. From then on carried money in my shoes! The city appeared to be half slums so poverty there appears to breed crime. Besides the unsafe streets, Rio's tap water is not safe to drink so spent much money on bottled water. I have now visited 35 nations and Brazil is the worst for finding anyone who can speak English. They didn't even understand my Spanish. Good luck to the tourists from around the world who visit the 2016 Olympics! At least in Chicago with its rich ethnic diversity, I would think it would be more tourist friendly. I grew up in Chicago and was never robbed and I could always drink from the tap there. Did the IOC make the right choice??? Last Tuesday, on the time/temperature signs that line the beaches of Rio, for a second it actually read 47°C (over 115°F) in a summer there of record breaking heat. This signpost was next to the very hot beach sands, so hot I was burning my feet through sandals. This didn’t stop tens of thousands of folks pitching umbrellas over folding chairs on the beach. The beach water, due to South Atlantic current coming from Antarctica, was cool just as is the California coast with its currents from Alaska, so surprisingly not that many were in the water.

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Besides the sweltering heat being uncomfortable, I was robbed twice during Carnaval in the Ipanema bloco parties where nearly naked people were shoulder-to-shoulder. First a guy tried to cut out my wallet with a box cutter but I grabbed my wallet in time and saved it without getting the back of my hand sliced, however those cargo shorts are ruined. On the next night I left my wallet with credit cards in my room safe and divided loose folding money into several pockets on another pair of shorts. However, during a shoving match a guy was able to rip open the Velcro on one pocket and got $10 but if he had targeted my left pocket would have gotten $60. From then on carried money in my shoes! The city appeared to be half slums so poverty there appears to breed crime.

Besides the unsafe streets, Rio’s tap water is not safe to drink so spent much money on bottled water. I have now visited 35 nations and Brazil is the worst for finding anyone who can speak English. They didn’t even understand my Spanish. Good luck to the tourists from around the world who visit the 2016 Olympics! At least in Chicago with its rich ethnic diversity, I would think it would be more tourist friendly. I grew up in Chicago and was never robbed and I could always drink from the tap there. Did the IOC make the right choice???

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]]> By: Grant in Texas http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/02/18/putting-the-snowpocalypse-into-perspective-with-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Grant in Texas Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:09:15 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2608#comment-152 I just returned from two weeks in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil and they are having a RECORD breaking hot "summer" there. Of course if one never gets out of their county (let alone the nation), and only read reich-wing websites, they might form the opinion the "WORLD" is just like their small space here on this planet. I just returned from two weeks in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil and they are having a RECORD breaking hot “summer” there. Of course if one never gets out of their county (let alone the nation), and only read reich-wing websites, they might form the opinion the “WORLD” is just like their small space here on this planet.

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