Hurricane Mitch

When many people think of Honduras, they think of the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch. Hurricane Mitch was a category 5 storm that hit Honduras in 1998. Today many Hondurans still think of life in terms of before and after Hurricane Mitch like Americans think of 9/11. The hurricane left 20% of the population homeless (~1.5 million), ~7,000 dead, and the Honduran president at the time claimed it destroyed 50 years of progress in the country. In 2001 I took this picture of destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch. Wikipedia has this good writeup.