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title: "We're thinking of our friends in El Salvador today..."
date: 2009-11-09T20:06:25Z
modified: 2009-11-10T18:24:00Z
permalink: "https://350.org/were-thinking-our-friends-el-salvador-today/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: "...like this Girl Scout troop at a 350 rally:"
wpid: 13854
author: Bill McKibben
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…like this Girl Scout troop at a 350 rally:

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Today a truly nasty hurricane, Ida, blew through the tiny country, leaving more than a hundred dead, and many still missing in mudslides triggered by massive rains, in some places measuring more than 15 inches. The country’s president said today:  "the damage sustained by our country is incalculable". Ida is now in the Gulf of Mexico, and may make landfall in the United States later this week.