TO READ: BBC
Summer brings rain in the Southern hemisphere.
It also often brings death and destruction.
In northern Rio state...water broke thru a dam protecting the town Campos de Goytacazes... sending residents fleeing.
In Minas Gerais state...66 towns have declared a state of emergency.
Rio and the southeast are suffering from floods and landslides...with 7 deaths...and 10,000 homeless.
Last year...more than 800 died from flooding...in Brasil's worst natural disaster.
TO SEE 1:18 Telegraph helicopter Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-tL0GbO4sk
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