PORTO ALEGRE, May 8 — Teams in flood-ravaged southern Brazil scrambled yesterday to deliver humanitarian aid to Porto Alegre and other inundated municipalities, where queues...
PORTO ALEGRE, May 8 — Teams in flood-ravaged southern Brazil scrambled yesterday to deliver humanitarian aid to Porto Alegre and other inundated municipalities, where queues formed for drinking water as forecasters warned of more downpours.
Nearly 400 municipalities have been hit, including state capital Porto Alegre, with more than 160,000 people forced to leave their homes as streets have transformed into rivers after days of record-breaking rain.Porto Alegre is home to some 1.4 million people and the larger metropolitan area has more than double that number.
In Alvorada, a municipality east of Porto Alegre, people queued with buckets and plastic bottles, collecting drinking water from the few taps still working.“This is horrible. We have children,” said 27-year-old Gabriela Almeida, queuing at a public tap with a one-year-old in her arms.Alvorada resident Benildo Carvalho, 48, was one of them — filling neighbours’ bottles with a hose as a line of people formed outside his house.
Some 15,000 soldiers, firefighters, police and volunteers were hard at work in planes and boats, even jet skis, to rescue those trapped and transport aid.Celebrities were also chipping in, with footballer Neymar sending a plane with donations. He said on Instagram he was “praying for everything to return to normal.
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