Tropical storm leaves more than 100 dead in Central America

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(CNN) -- At least 115 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
Guatemala was hit hardest, with at least 92 deaths, 54 people missing and 59 injured, emergency officials said. Nearly 112,000 people have been evacuated and more than 29,000 are living in temporary shelters, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said in an address to the nation late Sunday.
The devastation has been widespread throughout Guatemala with mudslides destroying homes and buildings and burying some victims. At least nine rivers have dramatically higher levels and 13 bridges have collapsed, the nation's emergency services said.
Classes have been canceled this week throughout the nation.
In Honduras, where 14 people have died, President Porfirio Lobo declared a state of emergency Sunday.
Nearly 3,500 people have been evacuated from their homes and nearly 3,300 are living in shelters, the Honduran emergency agency said Monday. More than 140 homes have been destroyed and another 700 have been damaged, the Permanent Commission for Emergencies reported.
The situation in El Salvador, where nine people died, was improving Monday, officials said. The rain stopped Sunday afternoon and river levels were beginning to diminish, officials said. Classes nationwide remained canceled, however, until further notice.
More rain was possibly forecast for Monday, though, and Salvadoran officials said they were closely monitoring the situation.
Agatha was demoted from a tropical storm to a tropical depression Saturday night and lost its status as a depression Sunday evening.
It was the first named storm for the Pacific hurricane season. The Atlantic hurricane season starts Tuesday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/am...ex.html?hpt=T1

**** that thing's deep :|

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wth is that!

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When I first looked at that picture the words "FAKE" came into my head. That is just shocking....

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i dont get what the hole has to do with the story.... am i missing something?

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When I first looked at that picture the words "FAKE" came into my head. That is just shocking....

Yeah same but it's not fake :|

i dont get what the hole has to do with the story.... am i missing something?

The hole was formed from the tropical storm

"The office of Guatemala's president handed out this aerial view of a crater that opened up after Agatha hit."

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its a sinkhole....... lol were did the ground go and how did a storm do tht

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its a sinkhole....... lol were did the ground go and how did a storm do tht

I have no idea :|

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A sinkhole created by tropical storm Agatha covers a street intersection in dowtown of Guatemala City on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides.(AP Photo/STR)

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I think that is just amazing, hopefully they dont fill it in!
RIP to all those who died, the power of nature can change anything, anywhere at anytime.

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Looks like one of those holes the Silver Surfer creates in the second Fantastic 4 film It just doesn't look real. Where did the ground go?