Flooding in Brazil

There were Tornadoes in Rio Grande do Sul, by the Serra Gaucha, wine country and Southern Heartland.  Its is a freak occurence, we do not have hurricane  or tornado seasons.

This very same sort of situation  so happened way back in Santa Catarina, by the Itajai Valley, way back into the early to mid  eighties.  Torrencial Rainfall then caused River floods which  inundated productive land and levees by the rio Itajaí-Açu, if i can remember that well.

The Federal Government sent relief aid, and Brazilians from all corners sent in aid, in the form of cash contributions, donations. 

Eventually, the State Government shored up the river and things went back to normal.  Factory owners rebuilt their plants, farmers's livestock recovered, and the River levees were shored up. 

At the time , Santa Catarina's State Office incumbent was Irineu Bornhausen , an imposing buinessmen of German Brazilian Heritage.  He also ran as a Brazilian Senator, and threw his ticket in the Presidential Horse Race, without  any  success at the party convention polls. 

This shall pass.