Thursday, August 19, 2010

More Than Just a Pretty Picture

Author: WHOO are we? | Posted at: 8:54 AM |

 

Honduran “Desert”

Photograph by Bradley E. Clift
This Honduran “desert” was pasture and farmland before Hurricane Mitch arrived in November 1998. Torrential rains unleashed the full fury of a flooded Choluteca River, which washed away entire villages, threw trees like matchsticks, and transported enough sand from the mountains to create an artificial desert.
The deadly storm killed thousands of people and destroyed so much of Honduras’s agricultural and transportation infrastructure that President Carlos Flores Facusse said the disaster had destroyed 50 years of progress in his country.

2 comments:

Unknown on August 19, 2010 at 9:04 AM said...

Wow, so sad....yet what a beautiful picture! Nature is unforgivable.

WHOO are we? on August 19, 2010 at 9:14 AM said...

Unforgiving to our abuse for sure! Amazing to think that this was plush farmlands at one stage!

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