The alarm situation continues all week in fourteen municipalities of the state of Recife, where five thousand families have lost their homes
Floods, landslides, thousands of homeless people and an unfinished list of the dead. At least 91 people have been killed as a result of the heavy rains that hit the state of Pernambuco and especially the large metropolis of Recife for a week.
The storm triggered a truce last Sunday, but forecasts for these days warn of meteorological instability that, according to the National Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alerts (Cemaden, in Portuguese), requires maintaining maximum alert levels before creating new cores. formed from torrential rain.
At least fourteen municipalities are still in an emergency situation. Tens of thousands of families had to be evacuated; more than five thousand have lost their homes. And Pernambuco governor Paulo Cámara estimated the death toll at 91 in the latest report released yesterday afternoon (midday in Brazil), noting that at least 26 people are still missing.
The northeast coast of the country usually has cramped months in May due to heavy rainfall. The National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) issued the first rain warning on the northeast coast on May 20, but the strongest plague reached Pernambuco on Monday 23. In three days, 194 millimeters was recorded in the state of Recife alone, a level surpassed by the city alone. with the maximums of 1970 (335.8) and 1986 (235).
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who flew over the affected area on Monday to monitor the storm’s damage, announced resources to help the victims. Regional Development Minister Daniel Ferreira specified that at least $200 million in “extraordinary credit” (a fund already under consideration to combat the effects of natural disasters) has already been released. Part goes to rescue work, care for victims and recovery of essential services. And the other, to the «reconstruction» of the houses and buildings destroyed.
One of the most tragic episodes of the flooding occurred last weekend in the Jardim Monte Verde neighborhood, between Recife and Jaboatao dos Guararapes, where at least 20 people died, buried in a landslide that wiped out dozens of houses under construction. hills that collapsed. Although authorities are working on seven landslides in the metropolitan area of Recife, in addition to Monte Verde, Barro and Guabiraba, Paratibe, Zumbi do Pacheco, Curado IV and Areeiro.
Source: La Verdad
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