{"id":9594,"date":"2017-08-28T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2017-08-28T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:25:12","slug":"sending-love-and-light-to-all-victims-of-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9594","title":{"rendered":"Sending Love and Light to all victims of flood"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a serious and heartbreaking situation at Texas. The city is submerging! Hurricane Harvey has left in its wake destruction. Five people are dead, and almost all institutions are shut down \u2013 schools, airports etc.<\/p>\n

We, in Nigeria, know what it is to suffer flood. We don\u2019t have hurricanes, but our drainage aren\u2019t handling issues as simple as rain. Weeks ago, we had pictures on social media of houses all across Lagos and flood taking over residents\u2019 homes. It\u2019s a sad situation.<\/p>\n

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In Houston, Texas, it\u2019s a dire situation, and evacuation is possibly the next step.<\/p>\n

There are many Nigerians living in Houston. To our brothers and sisters, and to the entire Texas, here\u2019s some warmth and prayers coming from Nigeria.<\/p>\n

We know our issues here in Nigeria are many, the little girl killed in Onitsha over last week is just heartrending. There\u2019s so much pain in the world.<\/p>\n

For everyone seeking succor, one way or another, may you find relief in the most painful part of your existence.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

xoxo SL<\/p>\n

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It is a serious and heartbreaking situation at Texas. The city is submerging! Hurricane Harvey has left in its wake destruction. Five people are dead, and almost all institutions are shut down \u2013 schools, airports etc. We, in Nigeria, know what it is to suffer flood. We don\u2019t have hurricanes, but our drainage aren\u2019t handling issues as simple as rain. Weeks ago, we had pictures on social media of houses all across Lagos and flood taking over residents\u2019 homes. It\u2019s a sad situation.   In Houston, Texas, it\u2019s a dire situation, and evacuation is possibly the next step. There are many Nigerians living in Houston. To our brothers and sisters, and to the entire Texas, here\u2019s some warmth and prayers coming from Nigeria. We know our issues here in Nigeria are many, the little girl killed in Onitsha over last week is just heartrending. There\u2019s so much pain in the world. For everyone seeking succor, one way or another, may you find relief in the most painful part of your existence. Amen. xoxo SL    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}