| Bolt from the blue
Many of the storms have struck the wide expanses of the Vale do Paraiba, where these pictures were taken. Locals are advised to wear their rubber Haviana flip-flops for protection - and never to use a mobile phone, which, in a storm, makes an instant conductor
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