Article 5AK1W ‘This was worse than Eta’: Hurricane Iota brings repeat destruction to Honduras

‘This was worse than Eta’: Hurricane Iota brings repeat destruction to Honduras

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Jeff Ernst in La Lima, Honduras
from World news | The Guardian on (#5AK1W)

Second devastating hurricane in two weeks lashes fragile nation and leaves villages submerged

Nery Benitez was working shifts as a baggage handler at San Pedro Sula's airport when it got flooded by Hurricane Eta. This week it was inundated again as Hurricane Iota struck.

I had gone seven months without work and three days after I got called back this flooding happened," the 50-year-old said. We have family and children. How are we going to feed them?"

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