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Seniors displaced after Yarmouth fire | SaltWire #fire #yarmouth #seniors #newsELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil - After three days of ferocious rains, Edite de Almeida and her husband fled their flooded home in early May and let loose their humble dairy herd on higher ground. Nearby, the waters rose above her head and within a day they were lapping at the roofs of houses.
"I'm not mourning. I'm grateful, because there are many who lost far more than us," Almeida said."I'm grateful we survived and I mourn for those who lost family."Her husband Joao Engelmann has made a daily trek by foot, tractor and boat to bring the herd whatever food he can find. He returns sopping wet each night after wading with friends through their farms, helping to haul away perished livestock and tend to the survivors.
The floods have rattled agricultural markets as they disrupted soy harvesting, washed out silos, snared farm exports and killed over 400,000 chickens. The government is lining up rice imports to blunt the impact on national inflation figures. As the floodwaters began to retreat in recent weeks, Almeida got a first glimpse of her ravaged home, with the walls stained, appliances wrecked and belongings coated in mud.
They are among 30 families in the settlement who produced enough rice, vegetables, milk, eggs and pork to make a living, build and furnish homes and send their children to university.Almeida, Engelmann and their daughter are sleeping on a truck bed in a neighbor's warehouse, improvising a domestic routine as they put their lives back together.
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