Brazil Storm Kills Two,Destroys Homes(First Ever South Atlantic Hurricane)

[KittyWampus]

Brazil storm kills two, destroys homes

Sunday, March 28, 2004 Posted: 11:49 AM EST (1649 GMT)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil ( AP)

A spiraling storm lashed the coast of southern Brazil, killing two people, injuring at least 30 others and destroying hundreds of homes, Civil Defense officials said Sunday.

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"The winds are getting less intense now, but the damage is substantial,"Santa Catarina state Civil Defense official Marcio Luiz Alves said Sunday morning.

The storm, dubbed Catarina by meteorologists, hit the coasts of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost states, late Saturday with heavy rains and estimated winds of up to 60 mph (97 kph).

The storm also downed trees and knocked out power for several hundred thousand people across some 40 municipalities, according to civil defense officials in the two states.

The storm hit land around the beach resort of Laguna, a town of 40,000 inhabitants. It also brushed Torres, a city of 400,000 in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Florida estimated the storm was a full-fledged, Category I hurricane with central winds of between 75 mph and 80 mph (121 kph to 129 kph), making it the first hurricane ever spotted in the South Atlantic.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/03/28/storm.brazil.ap/

[mobuto]

1. What's next?

When a hurricane hits Rome, that's when you know things are screwy.

[slor]

2. Just in time to add urgency to...

the movie "The Day after Tomorrow". I really hope it makes people rethink the effects we have on Mother Earth. Sad that it may take a summer blockbuster film to do this, but hey, whatever works.

[MinnFats]

3. Uh-oh. We seem to be having lots of 'never before'...

..environment/weather incidents recently. And we will continue to do so, I expect.
But to the Bushidos, all that environmental crap "put out by the bureaucracy" is just leftish bullshit designed to communize world production of goods.



Bush's assault on the environment should be a MAJOR issue in the election...

[dbt]

4. Weather modification via HAARP and chemtrails

is bound to have a backlash sooner or later. "First ever South Atlantic hurricane."

Case open.

:freak:
dbt

[MetaTrope]

5. Bush was trying to hit Venezuela with his Tesla Scalar Weapons

But looks like Brazil got in the way.