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Flooding in Rio Posted by on Jan 21, 2011 in Brazilian News

We’ve written about flooding in Brazil before, like the Santa Catarina floods in 2008 and the coastal flooding in Rio de Janeiro last year. There’s often seasonal flooding, particularly in the south, but this year has been exceptionally bad. Heavy rains [chuvas] and floods [enchentes] have affected Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Santa Catarina, but the worst hit area has been Rio de Janeiro’s mountain region [Região Serrana], where over 700 people have died and thousands were left temporarily homeless.

From Estadão:

“Segundo a chefe da seção de Previsão do Tempo, Marlene Leal, por causa da intensidade do temporal e a geografia da área, a ‘catástrofe era inevitável’. ‘Na proporção e na intensidade com que as chuvas caíram não havia como evitar que uma tragédia acontecesse. Eu confesso que a proporção atingida – em uma área tão extensa, região montanhosa, de vale, aliada àquelas cabeças d’água que se formaram descendo em velocidade montanha abaixo em uma área imensa – me surpreendeu.'”

Why was the meteorologist surprised?

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