the damages caused." – Ministry of the Interior's note on Diário de Lisboa, 1967. "[...] we wouldn't say: it was the floods, it was the rain. Perhaps it is fairer to say: it was misery, misery that our society did not neutralize, that caused the majority of deaths. Even in death it is sad to be miserable. Especially when you die for being miserable." – Comércio do Funchal, nº 1963, 1967.Newspapers closer to the regime would frame the catastrophe as unpredictable and would focus on the wave of grief and solidarity that followed. Others, namely the Portuguese Communist Party (then an illegal party) and student publications, would focus on social factors as the main cause. For example, the Solidariedade Estudantil bulletin would point out that the peak of the rain had occurred in Estoril, while most deaths would occur in the Lisbon slums. Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, soon after the floods, appeared on national TV (RTP) establishing a direct link between the lack of spatial planning and the dimension of the tragedy. Since 1967, there were only two other years with comparable events of intense precipitation: 1983 and 2008, but none led to as many deaths or evacuated people as the 1967 floods. While some of the most affected areas were not repopulated after 1969, such as the Santa Cruz da Urmeira neighborhood in Odivelas (20 killed, 30 injured, 100 homeless), other areas were repopulated and have since expanded closer to the river banks. New neighborhoods, such as the Bairro do Vale do Forno, have since been constructed near the river banks. In effect, many areas, at least in the Odivelas area, still had high risk for flash floods as of 2005, but the local population does not consider their personal risk to be high (58%) and do not have insurance that would protect them in case of a flood (82%). See also List of deadliest floods Flash flood Estado Novo Carnation Revolution References 1967 natural disasters 1967 in Portugal 1967 floods Estado Novo (Portugal) Floods in Portugal