In Brazil, at
least 27 people have been killed by landslides in Petropolis about 40 miles to
the north of Rio de Janeiro. The city
was named after Emperor Pedro II, who ruled Brazil from 1831 to 1889, and
was once the country’s capital.
The landslides
hit Petropolis when a river burst its banks after some areas got more than a
month’s normal rainfall in just 24 hours.
Brazil’s president suggested that some people had ignored warnings to
get out of threatened areas.
The same region
was hit by a series of deadly floods and mudslides precipitated by heavy rain
in 2011, when more than 900 people were killed in Petropolis and four other
cities. It is reported that promises by the authorities
to invest in better prevention measures had not been kept.
*Landslides and
mudslides are among the things that will be featured in my new book – Flood. Nature and Culture. Here is the first internet whisper about it.
(I didn’t write the blurb about the Old Testament.) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo16826611.html
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