CCD reports that food, medicine and clothing is in short supply. In Santa Barbara, the Quimistan-based staff report it is impossible to reach scores of rural villages that have been affected. Two leaders from Gracias a Dios, a courageous rural community of three dozen families that have struggled for a decade to defend their land, managed to get to Quimistan and reported that the entire community has been wiped out, the homes and crops swept away, many of the residents unaccounted for. The city of Choluteca is flooded. At least 20,000 people in just that zone are homeless.
Electric service is out in the entire region.
Several bridges have been washed away in the zone, preventing petroleum products from arriving in Tegucigalpa. Some 7,000 people remain homeless in the city, however. The mayor of La Ceiba has appealed to businesses to open as much as possible, but food and other basic materials are in short supply. Scores of bridges are out in the entire country, making land transportation impossible. The San Pedro Sula airport has been destroyed.