WORK - COMPRENHESION

FLOODS
Isolated for three days by the river Itajai-Acu, the city of Rio do Sul, with 62 000inhabitants, is one of the most affected by the floods ravaging Santa Catarina. On Thursday, June 8, Mayor Milton Hobus declared a state of public calamity.On Sunday night, the Civil Defense reported 15,000 displaced and 3,000 homeless in the city located in Alto Vale do Itajaí. The river level reached the peak, the mark of 12.96 meters. The city estimates that 90% of the city was hit by floods in some way.The highways leading in the South River are blocked by flooding and the food can onlyreach by air. It's intense movement of helicopters between city and airport ofNavegantes in Santa Catarina coast, where it was mounted a base of operations led by the Brazilian Air Force (FAB). A total of 11 helicopters participate in the work - twoblackhawk FAB-nine aircraft Military Police of Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Parana and Sao Paulo.

Lack of water and food - The resident Nivaldo Gomes, 55, said that the main need of the population of South River's water and power. "There are people starving," he says."Foods that come are taken to shelters, but people who are staying at the home ofrelatives are also without food." Nivaldo also denounces abuse in the price of water in the local market. "They are selling a gallon to 20 reais."

The isolation of the region also affect medical care. A group of nine people on hemodialysis was isolated in the city of Pouso Redondo and had to be rescued and taken up by the FAB Rio South, where they had stopped the treatment because of the interruption of access between the two cities by the BR-470 . "We look for a lady whowas already greatly weakened," said one of the soldiers who participated in theoperation.In the state - According to Civil Defense of Santa Catarina, nine municipalities have declared a state of emergency as a result of heavy rains: Agronomy, South River,Otters, Brusque, Ituporanga, Aurora, President Getulio Laurentino and Taió. Another 36have enacted emergency.In total, 91 counties were affected, affecting 935,932 people. Of these, 159,490 aredisplaced and 15,020 others homeless. Three people were killed.