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Testimonies of the population of Ilhota

ESTEFANIO GRODISKY, 51 years old, married, 04 children. "I saw everything falling, I saw the barrier just started coming down in front of me. Me and my family

we were watching the land, as had many cracks down. The mud that

brought down the house of my son, he lost everything, the mud was up to the roof, only gave time to run with the clothes on your back, thank God no one died. My

brother also in this same situation. My house was also of mud until the

roof. Worse than I did not finished building yet, lacking only a store to finish the concrete.

Mr GILDO DOS SANTOS, is 57 years old, married and with 03 children. Mr

Gildo describes in detail what happened on Sunday, Nov 30 at night: "I heard

a very big noise, as if it were an explosion and the day when the morning came

the hill on the side of the house had been below. Some 500 meters of earth came down if it were water, very fast and strong. The trees would fall, as if they were to toy. Enormous eucalyptus, a falling after another. That night my home was not hit, but went around and around. I lost about 200 plants of my palm and banana plantation simply disappeared. I had picked up, day before the rains begin 400 boxes of bananas, which were to mature, some plants the water has led , and I did donation

for Mayor and Civil Defense is distributing these bananas in shelters

here ..

LEO GRODISKY, bachelor of 37 years, tells his experience: "There were two firefighters who came to rescue a family, they were with a tractor and 50 meters

before they arrived at the house, a flood of mud brought the tractor. This happened

when the families were already on the tractor. The driver jumped the tractor, the two

firemen were buried, two children who were killed in tractor

buried, and also, a lady of 69 years, the grandmother. We save three

firefighters and rescue the children, who were seriously injured and had to

go to the ICU, and then were transferred to São Paulo. I still lost

nothing, but had to leave the house because the barrier that until yesterday was 50 meters away from home, is now closer to only 20 meters.

It is a fence taller than my home, and will overwhelm everything, just wait now. I was lodging two families who had to leave with me. What else makes me sad is unable to return to work on my banana plantation. I wanted to go home, but what I

most wanted was to return to work.