Apocalypse! God has poured millions of tons of water onto the streets of Honduras!

Flooding left thousands trapped for days without food or water and death toll may never be known. The storm made landfall off the coast of Honduras on 29 October as a category 2 hurricane before slowly moving across Nicaragua. In Guatemala, scores of people are feared dead after rain tore off the side of a mountain, burying the village of Quejá. As the flood waters recede in Honduras the storm’s full toll there is starting to emerge. Although the official death count remains low, people are returning to what’s left of their homes to find Dantesque scenes of human and animal remains half-buried in mud, and there are countless others whose loved ones have disappeared. In the valley surrounding San Pedro Sula, several rivers and flood canals overflowed so high that tens of thousands were trapped for days on rooftops without food or water. The total number of victims will likely never be known. “When we first came back to see our home we cried because everything was buried in mud,” said Argueta, who r
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