"I don't say this lightly - but the floods in #PortoAlegre, #Brazil, are looking comparable to what Katrina did to New Orleans in 2005 -- massive evacuations, water & power outages, key infrastructure damaged, parts of city, possible long-term consequences."—Brian Winter
"Persistent rains and destructive flooding in the southern Brazilian state have left 150 people dead, 2.1 million affected, 620,000 residents #displaced and 807 people injured.
The Guaíba River in #PortoAlegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, could reach unprecedented levels of over 18 feet in the coming days, according to local officials.
"As #climate-driven disasters become more regular and more extreme, inevitably more people will be displaced by those events.""