*People, this state is as big as an entire European country. It's not just a city, it's a whole state under water.*

It is not a city under water. It is a whole state, Rio Grande do Sul, under water.

I'm Brazilian, and I can say that this was the most catastrophic flood in the country's history. The state of Rio Grande do Sul is almost completely devastated, and tens of thousands of people have lost their homes and everything they had. Please send your prayers to our people at this time of so much suffering.

500 cities in one state!!!!! Wow. Please have mercy on them Lord.

You don't even need a setting to make a film. This scenario is already something post apocalyptic.

Just for you guys take an idea of devastation, the flooded area are about 5 THOUSANDS soccer field in size and total devastation is about the size of UK, folks this is not a joke, what we are seeing unfolding in real time one of the most catastrophic events of humankind, it’s like the Katrina hurricane magnified by thousand. Ps: Today (10th may) unfortunately the raining started again, god bless our people from south.

As an American, THIS is the stuff our humanitarian aid should go towards, not wars.

This is horrible. So sorry for the lives lost and displaced. Kenya had similar flooding recently. Prayers up for all of this people smh.

Some places in the world needs help, some is busy wasting money on wars and killings.

I live in a city called Canoas in Rio Grande do Sul. Half the city is underwater since last Friday. My state needs help!

Greedy developers and politicians allowed urbanization to grow without thinking in the future and without the implementation of flood control areas or conservation of natural areas that allow infiltration. This is the case in most countries. So direct all your anger to them.

Pray for South of Brazil

It’s like South Brazil and few countries cities are all sinking. Scary to think everything is normal then sudden any costal or near river cities can disappear as fast as it comes.

Catastrophic - cannot even imagine the financial loss to the country especially the inhabitants.

Hope you're all going to be OK

113 dead, 146 missing persons, 435 cities affected by floods.

It is like the whole Italy territory under the water in Brazil

Water level is high, pray for Brazil

That silent drone footage is eerie Bless those people and the federal/state workers helping. They have a long road ahead 🙏🏻

Guys this flood is so strong that a city like a CITY is gone, like that city don’t exist anymore (city: eldorado)

This is because of El Niño that created a high atmospheric pressure system as a blockage in the southeast, central-west and part of the southern regions, only the state of Rio Grande do Sul is receiving all the accumulated rain from the cold fronts that pass through the continent. Meanwhile here in the Southeast we have summer temperatures, very dry, it hasn't rained in almost a month, soon this place will turn into a desert and the south will disappear from the map if it continues like this.

This is astonishing. My goodness I’m so sorry for Brazil. What a devastating experience. Praying for them to quickly rebuild and support each other through this tragedy. My condolences also to the families who lost loved ones.

This is downtown Porto Alegre, in the city of Canoas there are areas where you can't even see the houses rooftops anymore!

Sou do brasil de um estado perto do Rio Grande do Sul e posso falar que virou um caos todo esse estado , algumas cidade toda coberta de água . Deus possa dar força a essas pessoas afetadas pela enchente 🙏

This tragedy could have been avoided, if it were not for the negligence and lack of prioritization of the city's representatives regarding the maintenance and hiring of specialized personnel for periodic maintenance and renovation of the dikes. Now with the destruction and death of people, they should be held criminally responsible!

Strange to think a big city like that can get to the stage of flooding like that

There have been warnings from meteorologists about the high probability of such rains due to La Niña and other elements. Both mayor and governor invested zero percent of municipal and state budgets.

Wow! With how big this flooded area is, I'm surprised the reported number of dead and homeless isn't much higher. Those poor people. I wish them well.

I’m now starting to believe that Noah really build that boat

First Sau Paulo and now Rio Grande do Sul. What I would say to my Brazilian friends is, pray that God may have mercy on your country as he is the only one in control of the natural elements.

pray for Rio Grande do Sul. Pray for southern brazilians

I havd never seen anything like that. We have floods in Sao Paulo, but what is happening in Rio Grande do Sul is totally in a different level.

Looks like a Netflix series i watched were the waters were rising up and engulfing cities.

Seems like this city is unable to be lived again. May God give them strength and patient to get a new place

Thank god that this situation from my area is getting coverage. This is horrible, please send prayers/donations if you can.

Chaos in Brazil nowadays. God bless the world! 😓

Absolutely horrific heartbreaking and devastating 😭😭

The world is slowing ending.

Lord we need your help

O Brasil é o maior país da America do Sul, nossa terra pode ser plantada de tudo, temos a maior floresta do mundo, uma das maiores produções de alimentos naturais, mas o clima do mundo está afetando até nós 😔

Apocalyptic disaster 🙏

The people are saving the people, the government most of the time is just getting in the way, an inefficient state!

excellent news channel! Rio Grande do Sul is bordered by Uruguay and Argentina. one of the states with the highest development rate in the country and which was affected in around 90% of its territory. This flood is the biggest since 1941. 

Don’t pray, adapt, survive. I love you 🇧🇷!

I live in Porto Alegre, the situation here is catastrophic. I never faced such thing in my whole life. We´re paying 2 dollars for a letuce.

Very bad situation

Praying for Brazil. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Força Rio Grande, meu irmãos! Voltaremos ainda mais fortes! Somos um povo que não foge à luta!

My foreigner friends dont even known I'm from Porto Alegre. I'm living nowadays 40km west from there, and in a hill flat top, so the flooding nor landslicing hit us over here. I cant say the same regarding my love ones around. The good thing is: southern culture is strong enough to rebuild everything when together. Let's do it!

Isto é o centro de Porto Alegre, na cidade de Canoas, tem casas que não se vê mais o telhado. Em alguns lugares que as águas baixaram, como Eldorado, a chuva lebou tudo, casas e bairrros inteiros desapareceeram.

I AM so sorry for all of you......I hope you'll get thru this....and all this nightmare stops.......Love and strenght from Poland❤

I live in a city called Barra do Ribeiro, its rain in this exaclty moment. this is being difficult for us.

Thank God that helping others is in Brazilians' blood. 85% of the help is coming from celebrities and businesspeople, etc. This president of Brazil sent help after two days. Thank you everyone!

Wow, it’s almost as if something is changing the climate?! If only someone had predicted this.

Não imaginava a devastação e a magnitude do que aconteceu, meu Deus. Oxalá tudo fique bem. Desde Portugal 🇵🇹🇧🇷

Oh my goodness my prayers to all Brazilian people! Beautiful people!

That is the city i was born and where I live. Now we need water, there is no clean water to drink, and there is no water do buy in the market.😢

Exemplificando, é como se estivesse alagado todo o país da Itália, em comparação.

99% of comments are from brazilian ppl.

Prayers for Brazil .

the waters rose 35 meters.

We really need any help someone can do. Our state is almost completely devastated

That was a pretty strong bridge actually. The piece that dropped fell altogether with no fracture

That volume of water is insane

essa cidade precisa ser elevada nāo tem como morar numa cidade assim sinceramente

Só Deus para ajudar os irmãos do Sul😢😢😢

🆘️Rio Grande do Sul🇧🇷😭

Pray for Rio Grande do Sul 🙏🏻🥹

Sou do Rio Grande do Sul. O estado está catastrófico, mesmo a minha cidade não sendo atingida diretamente, acaba influenciando em tudo. Espero que possamos nos reerguer e se planejar para evitar danos maiores futuramente.

My God! I am a Brazilian too. I never saw anything like this. Ever.

FUERZA TODO BRASIL, DIOS Y EL UNIVERSO LOS PROTEJA Y RESTABLEZCAN TODO SU TERRITORIO Y AYUDE A EL PUEBL🕊️💫

ATUALIZANDO, até a manhã do dia 10 de maio haviam sido atingidos 435 municípios, quase 90% do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul segundo a Defesa Civil.

I have watched something like this in the movie 🤯now I start believing some details in the movie are true 🤔...may God save his people 🙏

I live next to this city and i live in this state Rio grande do sul, but i thank god my house is not under water

Obrigado por mostra ao mundo😢 muito triste

Wow

Just like Atlantis

Muita força para o povo brasileiro! Vocês vão sair mais fortes disso. 💚💛

The state has been hit by heavy rains, 87% of the cities have been affected and the vast majority have been completely submerged. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. At the moment, a great deal of volunteer work by civilians is going into rescuing and sheltering people. We are crying out for help! Pray for Rio Grande do Sul

3:36 surreal, a cidade toda alagada.

😢💔🇧🇷

Oh my goodness...

As a Brazilian, I can say that catastrophe prevention policies have not received due attention in recent years. Dismantling more than 480 environmental laws in the state and a former government that was more concerned with cattle breeding and works without bidding demonstrate total disrespect for nature. Where examples of prevention such as China and Europe were concerned about the population there were no deaths, the country is run by people who only think about their own interests. It wasn't just rain, it was a premeditated tragedy ignored by the state's governance. While the world moves towards better environmental laws, Brazil goes against the grain and moves towards an unprecedented end, if nothing is done this is just the beginning.

We can thank ourself for all this happening around the world.. dont mess with the weather!!

Não existe expxlicação para oq aconteceu, isso é um castigo para um povo que não merece ser castigado, logo isso não é obra do divino, e sim do maligno. O povo sulista, gaúcho, é muito trabalhador, honesto e humilde, sem contar que é o povo que abastece as mesas de inumeros brasileiros E PESSOAS NO MUNDO! Essa tragédia pode ter dado inicio a destruição do estado em um país onde a volta por cima é extremamente dificil e demorada, isso causara migração do próprio povo para sabe-se la aonde.. O que esta por vir ninguem sabe, mas coisa boa não vai ser, somente Deus e Jesus podem nôs salvar.

Yikes. The woman who was just about to step onto the bridge a split second before it collapsed. No way she could have been saved.

Brasil é gigante, esse estado é maior que muitos países do mundo!

I'm so sorry for the disaster you are suffering Brazilian people!! Please protect the world's most treasured possession The Amazon Forest. She has protected you throughout her lifetime and she will continue to if you protect her too.

Friends. I'm from Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul. These images are from the city where I live. I'll let you know what happens. The state of Rio Grande do Sul is really very large and had 70% of its territory devastated by water. Mr. President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known as LULA, is not helping the State as he should, due to the fact that he did not have many votes in favor of his candidacy here in this state. I tell you, with complete certainty and with a broken heart that it is the people themselves who are donating food, clothes and saving people from the waters. Businesspeople are helping as much as they can and politicians are just waiting for time to pass.

This is horrendous...this disaster deserves attention and humanitarian services from the U.S

Pray for Rio Grande do Sul 🙏🏻

The people of Rio Grande do Sul and OF the whole Brazil have helped more than the our federal goverment. That IS the real true! This video is a marketing! 😢

Where is the water coming from.

May God bless and keep the Brazilian citizens.

The bright light makes the drone shot feels like it was made out of a video game! Chills man 🥶😔

I live in Porto Alegre and I can say that the federal government is being negligent in rescues, doing much less than it could do and the state government is not only being inefficient but getting in the way, charging fines to trucks that come from other states to help, demanding driving license for boats of the volunteer staff who are helping. If it weren't for the mobilization of the people who live here, there would be many more deaths.

I live in Brazil and I am Nigerian, I saw people stealing from shops and stealing phones and gold. People stealing from the supermarket even with flood everywhere. The news never showed that

5:33 unbelievable 😮 😮

I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, luckily the city I live in was partially affected. I've been without water for 7 days, but this is nothing compared to friends who have lost everything, absolutely everything! It's chaos here too! It took public authorities almost 3 days to organize themselves. The army arrived 2 days later effectively. Meanwhile, the people are saved by clawing! When city halls began to act, they began to hinder, block and prohibit some actions by volunteers and civilians in trying to save and welcome the homeless. When the last historic flood occurred back in the 40s, it took almost 30 days for the Guaíba to subside. And now how long will it take? They say it can take up to 60 days! The State is in chaos! Public authorities act but in a slow and bureaucratic way, do you believe it? And when we revolt, they act with brutality and abuse of power!!! We are the 3/4 state that contributes the most to the Union! We are living in difficult times, but like all Brazilians, not just Gauchos, we have strength and hope! Let's get through this! I hope everyone is watching what is happening here in Rio Grande do Sul, reflecting on how to charge and monitor public authorities (mainly politicians, but not only them) in a more firm way! AN APPEAL: DO NOT MAKE DONATIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT'S PIX. FIND SOME INDEPENDENT AND RELIABLE ENTITY! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! "Let our exploits serve as a model for the whole earth." "Beloved homeland, Brazil!"  Feedback Resultados da Web

If rich people would share the wealth we would never have these kind of problems