In the mountainous regions of Rio Grande Do Sul, there are constant traces of landslides and houses smashed by storms, and there are still 600,000 displaced. teleSUR
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00:00Despite a slow receding of waters in Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, floods
00:18persist in a large area of the municipalities of the Brazilian state, and there are still
00:22600,000 displaced.
00:25Our correspondent Ignacio Lemos updates us with more.
00:28In the mountainous regions of Rio Grande do Sul, there are constant traces of landslides
00:37and houses smashed by storms.
00:40The roads are showing signs of major impacts, but the routes to Porto Alegre have already
00:44been repaired for traffic.
00:46The Cai River swept away everything in front of it.
00:52The flood took everything.
00:53My mother's house was damaged.
00:55I don't have much to say.
00:57It destroyed everything.
01:01The bridge collapse changed the routine of students and workers in the highlands region.
01:07We work here and it's one kilometer away, but when the river level rises, we have to
01:11travel 22 kilometers of a very lousy country road.
01:16In urban regions, as São Leopoldo town the water is receding slowly.
01:21Some are already thinking about repairs and cleaning.
01:27We had cleaned up on Sunday, but then came again the river flooding, and it rose another
01:32meter or so, as far as I could see, because here everything was already cleaned.
01:38In here, we had cleaned everything and it rose a meter again.
01:45In the face of repeated and increasingly intense extreme weather phenomena, others are thinking
01:50of moving.
01:53We didn't expect that to happen.
01:55In the 1941 flood, the water level wasn't that high, nobody was prepared for it.
02:01We really won't stay here anymore.
02:03We will look for another place.
02:07There are volunteers dedicated to rescuing animals that have been isolated on the roofs
02:11and have been resisting for over two weeks.
02:15There are four of the same family.
02:17One was clinging to the fence, drowning.
02:20We passed by and saw her, so we jumped into the water and when we looked in the house
02:25there were three more and two cats and a bird in the cage.
02:29As a dam burst out, water came with power and families did not have time.
02:34Many of them have lost everything and are looking forward to return to their homes to
02:38rebuild their lives.
02:43It's sad.
02:45People lost everything.
02:47If you can help out.
02:49People need clothes and food.
02:51We are very grateful.
02:55For each of the 600,000 lives that suffered an eviction, there's a story of a common
03:00problem in Rio Grande do Sul, but one that extends across the earth and is far from being
03:05sorted out.
03:06In the second half of the week, Rio Grande do Sul expects further rainfalls.
03:11In addition, southerly winds are damming water in the Lagoa dos Peitos.
03:15Moreover, the full moon is stirring up the sea where flows generated by floods must be