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Brazil's Flood: Death's Rise to 110 and 19 are Still Missing

by mazevedo | November 29, 2008 at 03:59 pm

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Sat, November 29 2008

The number of deaths caused by rain that reaches Santa Catarina since the end of last week already reaches 110, according to Civil Defense reported this Saturday (29).
78,707 are homeless and displaced - 27,410 homeless and 51,297 homeless.
In all, more than 1.5 million people were affected by the rains.

The rain is expected to continue throughout this weekend and into next week making it harder for the cities affected to recover. New landslides are still expected in the state of Santa Catarina therefore several areas have been evacuated. It is said that in just 4 days the state has got an amount of rain it usually gets in 4 months. The Department of Health of Santa Catarina is already preparing itself and asking for donations in order to acquire equipment to fight against leptospirosis which is a really common disease in flooded areas. Volunteers who want to help can fill out a registration in the government site www.saude.sc.gov.br, the campaign has until now had a really good turnout and had several doctors and nurses recruited so far.

Public donations have also already raised $3.5 million U.S. Dollars and 800 tons of food and clothing.

Bellow are the accounts for donations:

- Bank / Sicoob SC - 756 - Agency 1005, Current Account 2008-7
Caixa Economica Federal - Agency 1877, Operation 006, account 80.000-8
Banco do Brasil - Agency 3582-3, Current Account 80.000-7
Besco - 068-0 agency, Current Account 80.000-0.
Bradesco S / A - 237 Agency 0348-4, Current Account 160.000-1
Itau S / A - 341, Agency 0289, Account competition 69971-2
SICREDI - 748, Agency 2603, Current Account 3500-9
Santander - 033, Agency 1227, Current Account 430000052

Name of the legal entity is State Fund of Civil Defense, CNPJ - 04.426.883/0001-57.

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Amy Judd

at 16:01 on November 29th, 2008

Thank you for posting this important story.

reshmi

at 01:12 on November 30th, 2008

it seems this phenomenon of getting rain/winter in 4days (which should have been spread across the season) is being seen everywhere. we are witnessing this in Mumbai since 3-4 years. heavy rains. sudden floods. severe winter, which we never had here. i feel the root cause of all these is global warming, loss of vegetation and environmental abuse. we have to start reversing our activities from too much of technology towards planting trees and getting natural. decreasing pollution. using public transport. and all those small things that we can do to help save the planet.