Bridge collapses into river as deadly floods ravage Brazil

A bridge in Brazil collapsed after heavy rains triggered flooding this week.
Fooage showed a firefighter using a cable to pass over a collapsed crossing in Santa Maria in the southern Rio Grande do Sul state where at least 29 people had died in the extreme weather conditions as of Thursday night (2 May).
Another 60 people are missing, according to the state’s civil defence agency.
South America's weather is affected by the climate phenomenon El Niño, a periodic event that warms surface waters in the Equatorial Pacific region.
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[@graememckay9972]

UK non stop rain for months, Saudi floods, Brazil floods, Australia floods. Either the ice caps have melted or the oceans are super salty because this water has come from somewhere.

[@jackblack2214]

😂😂😂😂

[@angelh5762]

This is what you get if you mess around with mother nature. Fafo.

[@Foestt1910]

@@angelh5762 Brazilians don't usually mess with mother nature, we are just cursed by this evil, our country has always suffered from it, it's natural causes, without human involvement

[@rogeriopenna9014]

40 dead already.
Almost the entire state, which has the same area as the UK, and 12 million people, was heavily affected.

[@gem33333]

Poor animals that drown..

[@liliancl5280]

Força a todos nós gaúchos!! Vamos superar este momento tão difícil. 😭

[@harejiujitsu]

Amém

[@GuilhermeDePaulaBarreiro]

Amém

[@angelaswales7492]

What they don't say is its through cloud seeding

[@angelh5762]

Well if you do this in multiple countries it will have a knock on effect for drought also. Was going to be used as a weapon, but that was a few decades ago.

[@antonyperks9156]

CORRECT AND 'THEY' EVEN ADMIT IT BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL NOT BELIEVE WE CALL THEM SHEEPLE.

[@Blessed-ly6kr]

Flooding in Houston, TX USA and Brazil. Climate change is really bad!!!😮😢

[@gavinreynolds9216]

Why the dramatic music?

[@nerdgrenade4365]

😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@Ellis_B]

More cloud seeding

[@Paul-zz1cr]

All the rain should lower sea levels. 👍

[@7thestate777]

Whoever doubted whether God could flood the whole world at same time as it happened in Noah now you can believe