💨 Off-season storm

Rio de Janeiro's metro trains stopped mid-tunnel. A container came loose at the Port of Santos, taking down a power line. Three maintenance workers in Barra da Tijuca clung to a balcony eight floors up for about an hour after their scaffold began swinging. By nightfall, gusts reaching 124.9 km/h in the São Paulo interior and 105 km/h at Rio's Galeão airport had killed at least five people and cut power to some 500,000 properties in Rio…

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