Reuters: Rescue workers rushed to help stricken residents in southern "Santa Catarina is facing its worst weather tragedy," state Gov. Luis Henrique Silveira told reporters. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called Silveira and told him the federal government stood ready to provide medicine and other supplies, the state said on its Web site.
The state government said the floods and mudslides had affected 1.5 million people, leaving about 150,000 people without electricity and eight towns out of the 60 affected completely cut off by flood waters and landslides. The death toll was likely to rise as several people were missing, state officials said….
Location of Brazil's Santa Catarina state, created by Raphael Lorenzeto de Abreu,Wikimedia Commons, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
2 comments:
We never had something like
in Brazil,
I was devasted
when read the news about that.
I think the biggest problem is the devastation of forest in the region
and building of housing in risk areas.
There's more to come...
Floods are terrible enough, but they are even worse when they strike an area that hasn't experienced them before. The photos I've seen of the devastation are heartbreaking and scary.
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