See the cities in an emergency situation!

Five cities in the state of Santa Catarina, until the night of last Thursday (13), declared an emergency situation due to the damage caused by the passage of the extratropical cyclone in the State. According to the Civil Defense of SC, more than 80 cities reported damage and damage due to the meteorological phenomenon.

According to the agency’s report at 8 pm on Thursday, the cities of Araquari, Entre Rios, Flor do Sertão, Maravilha and Iraceminha issued official communiqués on the emergency situation. The city of Garuva should also issue a decree, as stated by the State Civil Defense.

Because of the cyclone, a man died in the city of Brusque, in the Itajaí Valley. The worker was maintaining the telephone network when he was hit by a tree.

Two women were trampled after a PVC wall collapsed in a company and employees ran in the city of Navegantes, on the North Coast of Santa Catarina.

Bad weather caused several damages in the state, such as at Navegantes airport, on the North Coast, which received passengers traveling to Florianópolis. The force of the wind knocked down stairs, which delayed the disembarkation in the late morning of this Thursday.

_{Photo: A tree fall hits a car and a house in Chapecó, in western Santa Catarina, during the early hours of Thursday (14) — Photo: Civil Defense/Disclosure}

The force of the gusts also overturned two trucks on the BR-101 on Thursday. The wind still left 300,000 consumer units without electricity and uprooted several trees in the region.

On Wednesday (12), the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) placed the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina on red alert, in a situation of “great danger”, due to the formation of an extratropical cyclone that approached the States.

The agency states the forecast for a large part of Rio Grande do Sul and on the coast of Santa Catarina will rain more than 60 millimeters per hour or more than 100 millimeters per day, in addition to winds greater than 100 km/h, hail, risk of damage to buildings, among other inconveniences.

Featured Photo: Two women were injured in Navegantes after being trampled — Photo: Fire Department/Disclosure