‘I’ve seen things no one should go through’: the overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil’s floods |

 

 

"Claudia Duarte, 59, went up to the second floor of her house, betting the water wouldn’t get there – as many people did. By the time she was saved, it had already reached her waist. “Outside, it was like a wide sea covering every roof. I had already recorded a video saying goodbye to send to people,” she says.

The highway into the city, which passes over the islands of the neighbouring state capital, Porto Alegre, is peppered with people living in their cars and in improvised tents by the side of the road, resembling refugees in a war zone. One man says he has been living in his car with his five dogs for three weeks because no shelter would accept all of them."

read report by Fernanda Canofre

‘I’ve seen things no one should go through’: the overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil’s floods | Brazil | The Guardian