SAO MIGUEL DE ROSARIO, Brazil — The dirt road in front of her house is a river. Her fields of rice are underwater. And with water seeping into her home, Maria do Remedio Santos knows it’s time to leave.
Like 218,000 others in northern Brazil, Santos fled the worst rainfall and flooding in decades, braving newly formed rivers teeming with alligators and legless reptiles whose bite is excruciating.
Already, 36 people have been killed in the flooding. But authorities worried about thousands of people isolated for days with little food or clean water.
"There isn’t enough food, they even have a shortage of tents,” said Maranhao state’s Maj. Wellington Soares Araujo.
Like 218,000 others in northern Brazil, Santos fled the worst rainfall and flooding in decades, braving newly formed rivers teeming with alligators and legless reptiles whose bite is excruciating.
Already, 36 people have been killed in the flooding. But authorities worried about thousands of people isolated for days with little food or clean water.
"There isn’t enough food, they even have a shortage of tents,” said Maranhao state’s Maj. Wellington Soares Araujo.
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