[/caption]This past weekend, a tropical storm hit Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, leaving at least one-hundred-fifteen people dead.
On Sunday, Honduras's President Porfirio Lobo declared a State of Emergency. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes and an equal amount of people are living in shelters.
According to reports, thousands of people have ben evacuated from Guatemala, along with over fifty people still missing. Mudslides are scouring through the land, destroying buildings, multiple rivers have raised and thirteen bridges have collapsed.
A tropical cyclone is characterized by thunderstorms, strong winds and heavy rain, among other things. Tropical Storm Agatha was a tropical cyclone that flooded much of Central America. The first storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season, it was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the eastern Pacific since the 1997 Hurricane Pauline. Guatemala was hit the worst, adding to the disturbance and chaos that had been caused by the eruption of the volcano Pacaya, one of the most active volcanoes in Guatemala.
Pacaya has erupted at least twenty-three times since the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in the 1500s. It erupted in 1965, after a century of remaining dormant, and since then has been continuously erupting, the last major eruption being in January 2000. Despite that, Pacaya remains as a popular tourist attraction.
On Thursday, it began ejecting lava, rocks and debris. The volcano covered much of Guatemala City in ash, which resulted in the closing of the country's main international airport. President Alvaro Colom had declared a state of emergency in surrounding areas of the capital.
In addition to the thousands of people who have been evacuated from their homes in Guatemala because of the tropical storm that hit much of Central America, nearly two-thousand people have been evacuated because of the volcano's eruption.
Even though all of this happened there can be something done about it. Yes, people lost their lives but there are still those that didn't and there are volunteer groups that will and can help clean up the mess. The people that lost homes due to the storm will be provided for. No matter how bad things get, something can always be done about it.
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