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‘A Really Extreme Event’

Priscilla Neves recovers belongings while waiting for news about her missing parents, who were in their family home when it was covered by mudslides.
Priscilla Neves recovers belongings while waiting for news about her missing parents, who were in their family home when it was covered by mudslides. Photo: Silvia Izquierdo (AP)

“What we saw was a really extreme event,” Cássia de Castro Martins Ferreira, a researcher at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, told the New York Times. “It didn’t rain—it was an extraordinary amount of water that poured down.”

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