Billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday (local time) that his satellite internet company StarLink will donate 1,000 terminals to emergency responders in the flood-hit Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil. Due to torrential rains, the region is facing the worst floods in 80 years.

In light of the terrible flooding in the Rio Grande do Sul, @Starlink will donate 1000 terminals to emergency responders and use all terminals in the region for free until the region recovers. I hope the best for the people of Brazil,' Musk wrote on Twitter.

Rescue workers rescued a horse that had been stuck on a roof for two days in a heavily flooded town in Rio Grande do Sul. At present 136 people are missing and 1.65 lakh people were rescued by boats and helicopters as the roads turned into rivers due to heavy rains.

There is no chance of relief as the Meteorological Department predicts that it will rain for a few more days. As a result, the state capital, Porto Alegre, which has been flooded, and nearby towns are afraid that the water levels will rise further, according to a Reuters report.

Flooding destroyed infrastructure and bridges, blocking access to Porto Alegre, where supermarkets were looted overnight. Gov. Eduardo Leit said preliminary estimates put the flood damage at at least 19 billion reais ($3.68 billion). He stated on social media that the impact of floods and the severity of the disaster is devastating. In Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, the federal government estimated the economic impact of the floods at 7.7 billion reais ($1.49 billion), largely due to injecting funds into a program to support small businesses affected by the floods.

"It won't end here," President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at an event announcing measures to help the stricken state of Rio Grande do Sul. He said that the level of the state's requirements will be known only after the water level decreases.