In Southern Brazil, Rescue Efforts Continue as Ongoing Flooding Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Displaced

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1. 'I've seen things no one should go through': the overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil's floods

As the rain poured down during the night of 3 May, a stream of people began to arrive at the Lutheran University of Brazil in Canoas, a city in the southernmost state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul. For a week, heavy rains had been pummelling the landscape, raising river levels and flooding homes, forcing many to seek shelter elsewhere.

Three weeks later, the university harbours thousands of people and is the largest camp for the displaced amid a growing humanitarian crisis in the state of 10 million inhabitants. More than 580,000 people have been displaced, with almost 70,000 of them depending on shelters, according to a state government report. A total of 2.3 million people have been affected by the torrential rain and floods.

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/24/brazil-floods

Are we preparing for a similar scale of catastrophe here in the U.S.A.? As the earth heats up this may be a preview of things to come, not at some indefinite time in the future, but within a year or two.

How will we deal with a million displaced people, a hundred thousand of them in temporary shelters?