When your apartment buiding becomes a peninsula you can stay home safe from the caos the city has become, or you can get your caiaque and go play.

The raining season normally starts late March. This year, a cold swift of air brought the season early and it has been raining hear since late January. This should have been a good thing, it has been raining all over the state, known for it's dry weather and has already gone years without raining.

But when it's raining in small towns during one night more then it rains during a year, things become hectic. Small towns just don't have the structure to handle so much rain, become flooded, or worse, buildings and bridges colapse. The state government is estimating a cost of R$ 250 million to recover from the damages caused by the rain.

In Fortaleza, whenever it rains, the city becomes caos. The city's draining system is defective. The mayor's attempt to revert the situation came to late, he only started taking action late last year (oh, yeah, he only started so late because this year is election year for mayors). People are loosing their homes, streets are flooded...

>^.^<

And on that Sunday afternoon, five boys got their caiaque and played, crossing the flooded street. A truck passed by, and they told the driver: "Sure! You can pass! =D That way, we'll have waves!"