No safety precautions, no life! by Barbora Misakova

Every time some natural catastrophe takes its toll we are shocked and always unpleasantly surprised. Like we still expected that one disaster is enough and so we are always unprepared for another one. Heavy earthquakes and tsunamis, torrential rains and floods - they are repeating every single year, people are dying and towns are vanishing from the maps. Last week it was France which had to fight against heavy rains and floods which killed at least 15 people. Now it is Brazil but the toll is much higher. According to official sources at least 40 people have been killed by heavy floods in north-eastern Brazil. What is more, there may be as many 1,000 missing persons. Televis! ion pictures were showing survivors scrambling to rooftops or clinging desperately to lines of rope as rescuers in helicopters rushed to pluck them from the muddy floodwaters. Imagine rooftops and church bell towers as the only structures visible above massive brown expanses of floodwater and you will understand what is going on in some Brazilian states right now. As informed the governor of the state Teotonio, Vilela Filho: “We are worried [there will higher death toll] because bodies are starting to appear on the beaches and the rivers.” Almost 100,000 people in two states were left without a home or were forced to evacuate. Planes and helicopters are flying above the area, ferrying aid and delivering donated food, medicine, drinking water and mattresses. As officials announced, 55 million dollars in emergency aid will be used to help flooded areas. But when we look back to not so distant future – in April torrential rain killed at least 229 people in th! e Rio de Janeiro area. While rains and floods are repeating ag! ain and again, no safety precautions have been made so far! And that is the most tragedy of all!

related story (sgx17670): http://www.france24.com/en/20100622-northeast-brazil-floods-...

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