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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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Brazilian mayor: Floods have flattened entire town

By BRADLEY BROOKS,
Associated Press Writer –

RIO DE JANEIRO – Torrential waters flattened a small town as floods raged through two states in northeastern Brazil and the death toll was expected to surpass 44 as rescuers searched Wednesday for hundreds of people reported missing.
Mayor Ana Lopes said the entire town of Branquinha, population 12,000, will have to be rebuilt in a different location. Television footage showed a train station washed away, its tracks ripped from the earth. Cars lay overturned and strewn along a riverbank. Dazed people wandered about streets littered with couches, chairs and mountains of mud.
A humble Roman Catholic Church with a rose-colored facade was one of the few buildings to survive — but it was surrounded by the rubble of nearby homes.
Storms last week dumped a month's worth of rain on parts of Alagoas and neighboring Pernambuco state, near the point where Brazil juts farthest east into the Atlantic
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