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Tropical storm Mitch, the 4th strongest hurricane this century, unleashed floods and mudslides throughout Central America. Honduras suffered record damage in which many thousands were killed and nearly 2 million left homeless. among the…

People have few possessions remaining but some still have their pets. Here children left at the shelter reunite with their pets in the morning. The pet sleep outside.

Santa Alicia del Carmen Pastrana, who is handicapped, is interviewed in the shelter by government social workers in an effort to help place her in an appropriate facility.

Children left in a shelter while their mothers work for money, gathered to watch a video on the only television in the shelter.

Children left at the shelter while their mothers are out working and finding food, anxiously wait for their return raft.

Mothers wave goodbye to their children, who stayed behind at the shelter, as they leave at the crack of dawn aboard trucks, off to make extra money digging out mud for the government.

Honduran soldiers load U.S. aid on to trucks for delivery to shelters.

Women gather at a creek to fill their containers with water for bathing and washing. Some will have to carry the water a mile or more.

Girls looked out the window of their house in Colonia Miramesi at the destruction after part of the House broke away as a result of the mud slide.

Jose Roberto Hernandez sleeps in the dirt, debilitated from stomach ache and diarrhea, as his family continues to scavenge through the debris.