from our friends in Guarjila, El Salvador:  All of El Salvador has had 11 days of rain caused by a tropical depression.  Whole communities have been evacuated.  [34,838 of whom 24,162 are in 267 shelters.  The other 10,676 are staying with family and neighbors. They are still trying to verify the conditions of the people in the shelters]  In the country thirty-two people have died, some are disappeared, bridges are down, houses damaged, roads are washed out, and they have not assessed the losses to the harvest.  Guarjila has not flooded but the farmers have lost their entire harvest.  Emergency aid is beginning to arrive the communities.  As I write we still have not seen the sun and it is still raining…
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