Historic flooding in Brazil – authorities plan ‘tent cities’ for displaced people | DW News

authorities in Brazil’s South say they are planning to build tent cities to house some of the people displaced by historic flooding the state of Rio Grande Del has been devastated by Heavy Rain since April forcing half of a million people to flee their homes scientists are warning that it may take a month for the floods to subside DW’s Gustavo baso has this report from the flooded region five Brazilian army boats are now the only Connection in this part of Rio Grande dul ur’s parents are finally ready to travel for 3 days they slept in an office they didn’t want to risk a boat Crossing with their baby during the latest round of flooding in southern Brazil I think we can go now to our city maybe if the car is still there so we can go back we work here in or de Mayo so we came but there was nothing left the floods destroyed the house and our [Music] company there used to be a regular Ferry here but now everything depends on the military soldiers also bring donations for the more than 11,000 displaced people I left at 5:30 this morning and arrived at the school at 8: it is quite complicated because I work at a school in L in the morning and in the afternoon here the school director said I could leave so I left 5 minutes earlier the iron and concrete bridges in this region have collapsed and many houses have been left in Ruins marcos’s neighborhood has disappeared he had his life here it’s unbelievable it looks like a bad dream then you come here and you see that it’s true when I got here I looked around and I saw there was nothing left my house stood here There Were Trees here in the front there was a big beautiful tree a strong tree it broke you can see what’s left of it I knew six or eight people Mr Orlando’s family who lived here Orlando Silva who I used to buy from at the market we got along very well a neighbor of mine also lived here and the mother of another friend of mine two couples too all acquaintances all people I spent many years with Waters in six of the 11 Rivers monitored in Rio Grande D are still above dangerous levels the construction of new Bridges won’t be finished before July there are almost 80,000 people who still have nowhere to go except for the 770 shelters scattered across the region for now all they can do is hope that they will be able to rebuild their lives as soon as possible ible

Authorities in Brazil’s south say they are planning to build tent cities to house some of the people displaced by historic flooding. The state of Rio Grande de Sul has been devastated by heavy rains since April forcing half a million people to flee their homes. Scientists are warning that it may take a month for the floods to subside. DW’s Gustavo Basso has this report from the flooded region.

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21 comments

  1. What really happens at The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and was this German investment, for years Germany investing in China, is tik Tok the making of Netherlands?
    Mostly why is weather so strange, lately?

    Do people not have right to know why global warming is suddenly so chaotic?

  3. I live in Lajeado and i can say that civiians are doing more than the army or governent. We ar collecting donations and dtribuing to the people. A lot off private helicopters, off road jeeps and boats are helping day and night. Civilians from other cities and states are coming to help. Is heartharming to see that in so much tragedy.

  5. Climate change disasters will continue happening more and more often destroying human lives because of our greed to continue heavily polluting the world especially China and India

  9. Lier, this new it's not true.
    There in the group.
    Only civil saves civil.
    Soldiers did less the 1%
    Only normal citizens did 99% of rescuers.

  10. The one thing government is suppose to do, they can't do 😛

    They are all about regulating your speech, but can't even build proper flood infrastructure…

  12. Please guys, of course, Amazon deforestation is a huge problem, and has a, enormous impact on the earth's climate, but what's happening in Rio Grande do Sul is not Brazil's only fault. Nobody can guilt Brazil about this tragedy while US, China, India and many other world's big economies emit billion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere per year. I'm not minimizing Brazil's impact on global climate, we are within the ten biggest emissions of CO2 on Earth per year, but of course this is not Brazil's only fault, a lot of countries emit much more CO2 in the atmosphere than Brazil, mainly US and China, that lead the table for a huge margin.

    Humanity consumerism that's causing this, today Brazil is suffering climate problems, but tomorrow can be from any other country in the world, climate change do not chose who's it gonna impact.

    Humanity needs to act now!

  18. The rich civilians, the famous people, the influencers, and we poor civilians are also helping, in all parts of the country there are collection points for Rio Grande do Sul

  21. What caused this tragedy was the murderous neoliberal policy of Governor Eduardo Leite and mayor of Porto Alegre Sebastiao Melo. Flexible enviromental laws, defunding civil defence and ignoring ALL alerts from meteo agencies. The media in Brazil which is a diabolic monopoly of the rich is trying now to protect them as usual.

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