The Central Market is flooded after heavy rain in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
The city of Porto Alegre is flooded after heavy rain in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
FILE - Brazil's Vanderson Chaves, left, and France's Maxime Valet compete in men's saber individual, category B preliminary wheelchair fencing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, in Chiba, Japan, Aug. 25, 2021. Vanderson Chaves has faced many challenges in more than a decade as a Paralympic fencer, but none as fearsome as the massive floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
A man rides a jet ski on a flooded street after heavy rain in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
CORRECTS FIRST NAME - Paralympian fencer Vanderson Chaves poses for a photo in the gym where he trains, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Just days before he started decisive competitions to secure his spot at the Paris Paralympics, his apartment was inundated, losing all his gear, medals, trophies and his passport. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
A man rows a makeshift boat through an inundated street flooded by heavy rains, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Residents are evacuated in a military vehicle from an area flooded by heavy rains, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
People who evacuated their flooded homes rest in a shelter amid heavy rain in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Cars sit on a submerged road in an area flooded by heavy rain in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Volunteers gather in order to help residents evacuate from an area flooded by heavy rains, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)