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Watch: Images amusement devastating interaction of Brazil floods
By Vanessa Buschschlüter
BBC News
Heavy rains which caused wide flooding successful the confederate Brazilian authorities of Rio Grande bash Sul person near hundreds of towns nether water.
At slightest 85 radical died successful the floods and astir 150,000 person been displaced from their homes, officials said.
Some towns stay isolated and hopes of uncovering the much than 130 radical who are inactive missing are dwindling.
Further dense rains forecast for this week are expected to further exacerbate the concern successful the region.
Many residents had to permission their homes, with immoderate of the astir susceptible radical evacuated by rescue workers.
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Image caption,Rescue workers person been evacuating the astir susceptible people
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Image caption,Residents took their pets with them arsenic they near the flooded areas
The Brazilian Airlines Association said connected Tuesday that the airdrome successful Porto Alegre would stay closed until astatine slightest the extremity of the period aft the Guaíba stream burst its banks and flooded the runway and cardinal buildings.
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Image caption,With runways nether water, getting assistance to affected areas has been hard
The stream reached a grounds precocious level of 5.3m (17.4ft), section officials said. The erstwhile grounds was reached successful 1941 and stood astatine 4.76m.
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Image caption,Flights person been suspended for weeks to come
The airdrome is not the lone ample gathering which had to adjacent successful Porto Alegre, a metropolis which is location to immoderate 1.5 cardinal people.
The transportation of the Arena bash Gremio stadium is besides covered successful brownish sludge.
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Image caption,An aerial changeable of the Arena bash Gremio stadium shows the grade of the harm successful Porto Alegre
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Image caption,The city's nationalist marketplace was besides surrounded by water
The concern successful immoderate of the areas surrounding the metropolis of Porto Alegre is adjacent worse. Canoas is 1 of those severely hit.
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Image caption,Canoas, connected the outskirts of Porto Alegre, remains flooded
The utmost upwind has been caused by a uncommon operation of hotter than mean temperatures, precocious humidity and beardown winds.
Climate adept Francisco Eliseu Aquino told AFP quality bureau that Rio Grande bash Sul had ever been a gathering constituent betwixt tropical and polar aerial masses but said that "these interactions intensified with clime change".
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