All SC buses are prohibited from entering RS

The rains took over the streets of Porto Alegre (RS), which are now unrecognizable. With a clay color, the city’s bus station looks like a stone island in the middle of the streets. Due to the disaster, no buses can reach the location.

Porto Alegre bus station is underwater after rain and the Guaíba River flooded – Photo: Reproduction/@EPTC_POA/ND

No buses in Rio Grande do Sul

According to the bus station, it is impossible to leave the place, or get there. The terminal is located on the banks of the Guaíba River, which exceeded 5 meters in elevation, a historic mark in Rio Grande do Sul. This is the highest level ever recorded.

Just to give you an idea, the storms in Rio Grande do Sul have already left 57 dead, 67 missing and 74 people injured. The Civil Defense of Rio Grande do Sul has 42,221 people away from home, with 9,581 people in shelters and 32,640 homeless, who receive shelter in the homes of family or friends.

Three hundred of the 496 municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul registered some type of problem. There are already 422,307 thousand people affected.

Bus stations in Santa Catarina are affected

Júlio Santos has lived in Joinville (SC) for seven months and tried to return to his hometown Veranópolis, in Rio Grande do Sul, however, there is no bus to the place.

“I want to go back and I can’t,” says the freelancer.

In Joinville, only one company is running the route to the coast of Rio Grande do Sul, another six have suspended trips. Between this Saturday (4) and Sunday (5), there are trips to Capão da Canoa, Torres and Tramandaí.

At the Florianópolis bus station, two buses that were going to Pelotas returned to the Santa Catarina coast this Saturday. The forecast is that this Tuesday (7), the situation will return to normal.

Streets crowded by water in Rio Grande do Sul

In addition to the bus station, streets in the Historic Center of the capital of Rio Grande do Sul were flooded by the waters of Guaíba.

According to information from the Civil Defense, it is highly recommended that residents, traders and workers in areas close to the streets Siqueira Campos, Sete de Setembro, Rua dos Andradas (known as Rua da Praia), Avenida Júlio de Castilhos and surrounding areas, immediately evacuate these areas. risk and seek public shelters or other safe places to stay during the rise in Guaíba levels.