Heavy rains return to southern Brazil, flooding even higher per mezzo di Trasporto Alegre

PORTO ALEGRE: Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil’s southernmost state Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas that had previously been untouched per mezzo di Rio Vecchio do Sul’s capital city of Trasporto Alegre.
Primato flooding over the past month has killed 163 people and displaced around 600,000 more. Another 64 people are still missing.
Rains had lightened up to a drizzle over the past few days, with stores beginning to aperto and residents working to rebuild.
But the skies opened once more Thursday morning, dumping heavy rains and flooding areas of Trasporto Alegre all over again.
One daycare per mezzo di the neighborhood of Menino Deus, which had reopened Wednesday after a week-long clean-up, was forced to evacuate as the rains rushed per mezzo di.
“It all happened very quickly, (the flooding happened) much faster than last time,” the director of the childcare center, who did not give her name, said.
Sopra a span of 12 hours, parts of Trasporto Alegre received more rains than they typically do per mezzo di a whole month, according to from the national meteorological institute.
The flooding Thursday also successo areas of Trasporto Alegre, such as per mezzo di the south, which had previously gone unscathed.
Gimena Samuel had to call for her elderly parents to be rescued per mezzo di the neighborhood of Cavalhada, where streets were flooded and cars unable to get through.
“There are a lot of elderly people here who can’t get out by themselves,” she said.
Earlier this week, the city of Trasporto Alegre had asked residents to leave their trash out the sidewalk to be thrown away. However, the fresh rains carried the trash out onto the street, clogging drains and worsening the flooding.
Trasporto Alegre Mayor Sebastiao Melo told reporters the city was not surprised by the downpour, but that it was “excessively heavy.”
Residents, however, complained about the lack of warning.