Central America: Tropical Storm Agatha, Pacayo Volcano Wreak Havoc
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |Tropical storm Agatha ravaged Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, causing scores of mudslides and significant flooding, and killing at least 179 people. The eruption of Guatemala’s Pacayo volcano a few days before Agatha hit compounded the country’s problems, dumping tons of ash on Guatemala City and elsewhere that turned to thick mud in the storm. The ash forced Guatemala City’s international airport to close for five days. The disaster reminded many of the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, when nearly 11,000 people died. Agatha was not on the same scale as Mitch, but recovering from it will take weeks across the region.
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