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Honduras is experiencing a tremendous amount of flooding right now. I have a friend who lives in a city (La Lima) that is entirely flooded. Thousands throughout the country have lost their homes and everything they own to the floods. Nearly every part of the country is being affected by the constant rain. Click here to read the BBC News story to catch up on the state of the country. Many are saying the damage from the incessant rains and flooding is nearly comparable to the damage caused by the devastating Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
My boyfriend (yes, I know… still have to catch up on that) and his band are organizing an impromptu concert with six other bands in the country as a charitable event to raise donations for those who have lost everything. I’d love to start another campaign to raise donations myself. But, I think I’ve milked most of you all already with the Chorti campaign. I’m still thinking about it though… so get your pocketbooks ready!
I checked in with Billy and Mary to see how the rains were affecting the Chorti people who live in the mountains throughout the Copan regions. Unfortunately, Mary reports that the direct descendants of the Mayans are sustaining critical crop losses because of the rains. Please keep them and all the many other damnificados (refugees) in your prayers.
Hi Laura,
Thanks so much for thinking about us and the Chorti. I believe that this is the worst rainy season we have seen in the nine years we have lived in Honduras. Right now the main problems seem to be the damage to roads and to water systems. Several villages are experiencing problems with their water systems because land slides have damaged the conduction lines that cross the mountains. Many of them cannot get their crops out of the fields because they have to have sun to dry the corn and with all the rain, there is no sun. Also, some villages would be planting beans about now but cannot because of so much rain. So, we just do not know at this point what the overall damage will be. Since most of the villages we work with are in the mountains, they are not experiencing flooding but the land slides are a problem.
The road between Santa Rita and Copan Ruinas is really bad. Yesterday Billy was held up for about 1 1/2 hours waiting for 18-wheelers to pass so he could get through. Then they put some loads of dirt and gravel in a very low place to build it back up so the big trucks would not have so much trouble. Today they added some more. Maybe it will help.
Are you still in San Pedro Sula?
I don’t remember if I told you that the 7 month old baby has to be at Hospital CEMESA at 3:00 PM on Nov. 13 for his surgery. I need to call the hospital to find out a few more details but this was wonderful news for us. The parents visited us the other day and were very pleased that he was selected for the surgery and that they do not have to go to the states for it. So, it is a win, win, situation:)
Please keep in touch,
God Bless,
Mary
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