But Rio's mayor, Eduardo Paes, also discovered during the 2010 storm how woefully inadequate were the city's more mundane tools for dealing with a major crisis: monitoring the rain, sharing information across departments, directing emergency crews and orchestrating repairs.
The ads include the kind of romantic scenes we've come to expect: couples walking in the rain or sharing a candlelit dinner.
But nearly ten years after the legendary comedian's death, Rain shares that she no longer feels heavily conflicted by the mention of her father.
Before rising from his seat in the Weymouth bar to face the rain, he shared a few Churchillian thoughts.
An hour later, in the rain, they shared a cab back to J.F.K., neither of them so much as glimpsing the Manhattan skyline.
Hal Sutton, Steve Elkington, Corey Pavin and Roger Chapman shot three-under 69s in light rain to share the first-round lead in the Champions Tour's Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic in Saucier.
At a gathering in October on the roofless terrace of the building, a couple of dozen illegal migrants sat on a mattress or on little stools beneath a blue plastic sheet to protect them from the rain, and shared harrowing accounts of their lives in Morocco.
Rain also shared that Asia had stated that she'd been receiving unsolicited nudes of Jimmy since he had been 12.
It was a worthy cause and the United States had agreed to cooperate in combating acid-rain pollution and sharing the cost". "And Nancy had been the whipping girl " (without a doubt, emphasis hers).
It has been said that "into every life a little rain must fall". Brenda, by sharing her intimate life story, has expressed the universal human experience of surviving betrayal, then learning to trust again through forgiveness.
