From October 27 – 31, 1998, the hurricane produced torrential rains causing mass destruction due to mudslides in Tegucigalpa, yet the damage did not stop then. Tegucigalpa citizen Oswaldo Domingues added to the public journal on Sunday, November 1, that, “It has not stopped raining, there are no bridges, the streets are useless, we are also without water and the electricity comes in short instances. It is unbelievable!” He continued to comment that the vast crowds in many of the region’s supermarkets are causing the people to wait outside in the rain covered river like streets in order to gain entry to purchase necessary emergency supplies. Dominguez also added, “Thousands of houses fell and continue to fall. The bridge of the Penitentiary among others fell, and a great part of that building also fell. The criminals threw themselves to the water and escaped and the some police were shooting at them” (“Hurricane Mitch”). It is difficult to envision the destruction that affected so many Tegucigalpan and Honduran citizens during and after Hurricane Mitch passed through the region. This picture shows some Tegucigalpans trekking through the mudslides during the torrential rains.
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