Days after mudslides wiped out whole neighborhoods, many people sustained to live in homes in endangered areas, unwilling to unite the thousands crowded into shelters despite the ever-present danger to their lives.Rali Oliveira da Silva, 36, spent numerous years building a home for his family in Cascata do Imbui, saving little by little for the cement, the bricks, the paint. The house was still footing Sunday, but its cement patio now hung insecurely over a deep precipice, the empty space left by a slide that killed most of his downhill neighbours.
Oliveira da Silva knows his home could be next. But he said he has no money to rent another place, much less buy land elsewhere and start over, so he's staying put for now.
Survivors who lost all and those clinging to homes on unhinged ground face an uncertain future as they try to rebuild lives torn apart by the landslides that struck mountain towns outside Rio de Janeiro and killed at least 626 a death toll that rises every day as more bodies are pulled from the mud.
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