5, 2011, according to the National Weather Service. Our city's highest rainfall total in one day was 9.49 inches on Sept. In Chattanooga, we've not yet seen that kind of rain concentrated here. In Brazil - home to the world's greatest rainforest - that record rain for the city of Petrópolis, set in a mountainous region much like ours but 40 miles northeast of the oceanfront Rio de Janeiro, was a mere 10.2 inches in 24 hours - surpassing the city's previous record set in 1932. The tragedy may be thousands of miles away, but aerial video of rushing water and splintered homes looks like what we might imagine on the hills and ridges of Chattanooga if similar unimaginable record rains fell on newly built, dense housing developments that have cropped up on the bowl-like sides of our metro area. Reuters on Monday reported 176 killed and more than 110 missing.
"A relentless downpour in a mountainous region of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state triggered flooding and massive mudslides that have killed at least 110 people, authorities said" as they "braced" for the toll to rise.
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