Old system, dikes reform, home delivery: promises are not out of paper one year after the disaster in RS

Enthusiasts in May and April 2024 reached more than 2 million people in almost all the cities of Gauchos In the worst climate disaster in the South River, more than 2 million people in almost 500 municipalities suffered intense rains only between the end of April and the beginning of May. In the tragedy concert, the rhythm is more vague. A year later, some works have not yet gone out of paper. The duration is often linked to the various stages n…

By Pedro Rafael Vilela – Agência Brasil At 54 years old, cook Luciane da Rosa Bairros could not contain her excitement when she signed the contract and received the keys to her new home. It could be a typical story of someone who buys a property, but she is one of the thousands of victims of the floods in May […]

At 54, cook Luciane da Rosa Bairros couldn't contain her excitement when she signed the contract and received the keys to the new house. It could be a typical story of someone who acquires a property, but she is one of the thousands of victims of the May 2024 floods in Rio Grande do Sul. A former resident of the Moinhos neighborhood, in Estrela, in the Taquari Valley, Luciane saw her house succumb to the force of the waters. “We had to leave th…

As the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Rio Grande do Sul fell and the damage caused by the combination of record rainfall and the lack of preparedness of municipalities accumulated, a central bottleneck became evident: the state's network for monitoring and forecasting rainfall and river levels was insufficient to handle an extreme weather event of that magnitude. Many monitoring stations were not working or were rendered inoperative by the f…