The neighborhood where Alba Benítez lives was shaken by the cries and laments of the neighbors, perched on the zinc roofs of the little houses.
One of them painted an SOS on the roof.
They called the fire brigade, the emergency phone, and saw the rescue helicopters go by, but no one came to their aid.
“We were all crying.
Not only in my house, but in the entire neighborhood, all the neighbors crying.
We feel very unprotected because there is nothing here;
here one dies, ”Alba explains from her flooded house in conversation with Telemundo.
He fears for his mother, who fell ill with COVID-19, and for his three grandchildren.
In Los Angeles, California, 3,600 kilometers from there, her aunt María Lidia Torres is restless because she can no longer communicate with her: "Send the helicopters to evacuate them, they could drown!"
The 28th storm of the Atlantic season devastated entire colonies in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and southern Mexico, and flooded part of Florida and North Carolina in the United States.
It has left more than two million victims and dozens of dead, without a total number yet being known.
In the memory of all those affected who still live to remember it is Hurricane Mitch of 1998, which took the lives of more than 9,000 people.
"This is worse," some say.
This year, the intense hurricane season is expected to last until November 30.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), a tropical depression is forming in the Caribbean, number 31, which could strengthen as it approaches Central America early next week.
In this week's episode, Julio Vaqueiro talks with Raúl Torres, who reports from Honduras, and with Dunia Elvir, host of Telemundo in Los Angeles, where he has spoken with some of the relatives of the survivors.
