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In October 1998 Hurricane Mitch resulted in the deaths of over 10,000 people in Central America. It was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in 200 years.
Living within a hurricane
A message received from Oswaldo Dominguez in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Saturday, October 31, 1998 6:24 am:It has not stopped raining, there are no bridges, the streets are useless, we are also without water and the electricity comes in short instances. It is unbelievable! Last night MITCH was exactly upon Tegucigalpa. The truth is that I had never seen anything like it.
The supermarkets were full yesterday. You had to wait under rain to be able just to enter. It's incredible. The streets are like rivers. Thousands of houses fell and they continue to fall. The bridge of the Penitentiary among others fell, and a great part of that building also fell. The criminals threw themselves into the water escaped and the some police were shooting at them. In the Loarque neighbourhood I saw several houses being taken away (by the floods), one of them with five people on the roof ... and just to make it worse, they have had to allow water from the dams to escape because they were on the verge of exploding.
There is no communication with other cities, even with Valley of Angels. Generally, all the bridges in the country have fallen or have warning that they are about to fall. It is a disaster! Really, I am scared, in the Ceiba bodies began to float. There are no words to describe this. Of Guanaja, that is where MITCH was located over 12 hours, nothing is even known. No communication or nothing of them is known. In the banks, we have remained without money... we had to close because we can no longer service people, there were lines outside the bank and we didn't have any money to give back to our account holders.
The airports are closed, we can't find any more candles, there is no bread, and this is very catastrophic. Let's see what happens? Now a force of broad atmospheric pressure could convert MITCH again into a Hurricane and we are afraid that it could return here like it did before. The telephones if you're in lucky, you might be able to use them. I hope it stops raining, but last night was terrible, and the consequences have already begun. The entire coast is where this is worst. Here what affects us was rain and the swelling of the rivers, over there it was the hurricane. The TV news is horrible, you can not start to imagine.Pictured above: A harrowing scene is captured of the hand of a dead person appearing through the mud after a mudslide in Nicaragua.
