For several hours, the floodwaters rose until they swept away Miguel Rutigliano Bieleski's home, his wife and his two children. Bieleski said he only survived by clinging on to the branch of a tree.
Bieleski, 35, is one of many Brazilians in the south of the country struggling to rebuild their lives after being battered by a tropical cyclone this week. Around 7,700 people are estimated to have lost their homes, according to government officials.
Bieleski lives in the town of Lajeado, which was badly hit by floodwaters from the engorged Taquari river. Paulo Ricardo Siqueira Santos, who is also from Lajeado, now sleeps in his car after his home was filled with mud and water. Before escaping, the 65-year-old retiree managed to save his gardening tools, his only means of subsistence apart from donations of food and water. He said he was worried thieves would ransack whatever belongings remained, and he now lives in his car.
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