🇧🇷 Rains, destruction, and deaths in the south of Brazil demand a new term to define a climate catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands were displaced in Rio Grande do Sul, #Brazil's southernmost state. This is the same state that endured three climate disasters in 2023 alone. 🧵
Since the publication of this story on May 7, the worst natural disaster in the history of #RioGrandedoSul has registered 100 dead, 128 disappeared, and over 1.4M affected. Sums that seem underreported when one sees the images of entire cities underwater.
🚨 Pessoal brasileiro do #fediverse, me ajuda, o AmbuTrans do centro de #PortoAlegre está debaixo d'água, e pode demorar meses para o centro voltar a normalidade, eu recebo minha testosterona via SUS! Por favor me diga um lugar alternativo que eu possa ser transferido para continuar meu tratamento :neocat_floof_sad: a vida já está sofrida demais.
Deaths: 84
[83 Rio Grande do Sul + 1 Santa Catarina]
Injuries: 276
Missing: 111
Rescued: 1,011
Displaced: 122,000
Sheltered: 15,000
Power outages 420,000
Water outages: 854,500
Seventy-five people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday. The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking...
The storms also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam structure at a small hydro-electric power plant. Flooding from heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has killed 39 people, according to local authorities, with the death toll expected to rise as dozens remain unaccounted-for....
E “finalmente” porque de São Luiz Gonzaga e Dao Borja são 70km de absolutamente nada (talvez uma ou duas instâncias, mas fora isso nada de posto de gasolina, nenhum silo, nada).
Flooding death toll in south Brazil rises to 75 as over 100 people remain missing (www.theguardian.com)
Seventy-five people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday. The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking...
Flooding in Brazil kills 39 people with 68 still missing and 24,000 displaced (www.abc.net.au)
The storms also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam structure at a small hydro-electric power plant. Flooding from heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has killed 39 people, according to local authorities, with the death toll expected to rise as dozens remain unaccounted-for....