Historic floods kill 78, leaving Brazil and its president angry, shaken

Even in a country increasingly inured to natural disasters driven by climate change, the flooding that has slammed into Rio Grande do Sul, one of Brazil’s most prosperous states, has badly shaken this nation of 215 million. With more than half of the cities in the state dealing with flooding, and 20,000 left homeless, Rio Grande do Sul hasn’t just been damaged. It has been crippled.