Men navigating a boat through a flooded street in downtown Porto Alegre, in May last year. Armed with donated brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million in the Brazilian city. Still repairing damage nearly 12 months after Rio Grande do Sul’s worst-ever natural calamity, residents worry not enough is being done to buttress the city for another such catastrophe, which experts say is made ever more likely by climate change. — AFP
ARMED with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
As residents continue to repair damage a year after Rio Grande do Sul’s worst- ever natural calamity, they worry that not enough is being done to buttress the city against another such catastrophe, which experts say is made ever more likely by climate change.
