Your pictures: Brazil floods

You have been sending us your pictures of the floods in Brazil's Santa Catarina state. Sandra Mara Muller took this picture of the flooding while driving up the north coast.

Alessandro de Carvalho Souza: "It's been raining here for 16 weeks. We've had four months worth of rain in three days, I've never seen anything like it before."

Oscar Augusto Risch: "This is my parent's street in Joinville in Santa Catarina State. There is half a metre of water in their house and we have lost a lot of furniture and electronics..."

"...Fortunately, we can recover these and are praying for the other families. Joinville has been badly flooded and it is still raining but it is not the worst affected area."

The heavy rainfall caused landslides that have blocked roads in the region. Roads in Brusque near Blumenau have been completely flooded...

...Transport throughout the state has been paralysed with roads blocked by mud and water. Photo: Rafael Risch

Anna Cullum: "We are on the island of Florianopolis where there has been some severe flooding and at least one landslide. This is my friend Phil wading across our road to move his car to higher ground."

Melanie Walendowsky Baker took this photo with her mobile phone in Cabeçudas where some of the beach has been washed away by heavy rain.

Melanie Walendowsky Baker: "What is left of the beach is covered in debris and vultures are circling. The town has been warned there will be water shortages. Schools and businesses have also been shut."

Sandra Mara Muller took this picture of flooded houses. Send your pictures to [email protected] or text them to 61124.