A couple look as workers clean the streets in downtown Funchal after heavy flood in Madeira island
A couple look as workers clean the streets in downtown Funchal after heavy flood in Madeira island February 24, 2010. The number of people missing after floods hit the resort island of Madeira has jumped, raising fears the death toll in Portugal's worst natural disaster in a decade may rise sharply, officials said on Monday. Rescue workers have scrambled to find survivors and clean up after torrential rains on Saturday turned streams into gushing rivers that blasted through the island's capital, overturning cars, destroying houses and blocking roads. REUTERS/Duarte Sa (PORTUGAL - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)