2016-08-08 12:04:00

Hurricane Earl strikes Caribbean, Mexico


(Vatican Radio) Landslides due to Hurricane Earl have killed 38 people in Mexico, with the death toll expected to rise.

James Blears reports from Mexico:

Prior to hitting Mexico, Hurricane Earl, killed nine people. Thirteen people died in the Dominican Republic when falling power lines hit their bus; three drowned in Haiti, when their boat capsized.

But Mexico has suffered the brunt of Earl. Twenty eight are confirmed dead in the remote village of Huauchinango in Puebla State, while authorities in Veracruz State confirm ten more deaths, due to landslides engulfing homes with tons of thick, cloying mud.

Mexican troops in olive green fatigues, wearing white arm bands are working around the clock, digging, sifting and clearing a deluge of mud and debris, and uncovering buried buildings.

Many roads and highways have been closed, due to flooding, which has led to severe structural damage. The true extent of the crisis is yet to be fully known, as many more remote and isolate settlements remain cut off.

Each and every year communities throughout the Americas, are in desperate peril, as the hurricane and tropical storm season, blitzes the region.

Many families of modest means have no choice, but build homes in the shadow of looming hillsides which easily saturate, because there`s simply no other land available.








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