Tropical Depression

By Matt and Katie

This describes the weather and, yes maybe our state of mind for the past week or so. Suffice it to say it has rained a LOT! "Tropical Depression 16" has been dumping water all over Honduras for the past week. It has caused a lot of destruction and deaths. Hundreds of people have lost their houses due to flooding and mud slides including the mother of our neighbor Noè. Her house that was made out of adobe got saturated and fell over last Sunday night. Thankfully she got out of the house before it collapsed. In Catacamas we have been without power for 7 days, and are not sure when it will come back. So today we drove 45 minutes to Juticalpa to get some things and use the internet. But it has been sunny for the past two days and things are starting to dry out. The military is working really hard putting up new power lines and the municipality is repairing the roads. Please pray for the people of Honduras who have lost their livelihoods and families in this storm. We are seeing first-hand that during disasters like this it is usually the poor who are most affected because their property is often not suitable for building, or their houses are not made of strong enough materials.
We just thought we´d let you know why you haven´t heard much from us lately. We are doing fine, and did not have any major problems with water in our house because it is on high ground and is well-built with a ditch along the road. We will post more updates as we are able.