In reply to Beth in MN.

HOLY SHIT!!!! Look at the third picture she linked to! I have never seen anything like that before.

But don't worry about us, everything here is fine. It was sunny and pleasant for the last two days; I think we must be too far inland (or the Cuchumatanes too high) for Agatha to harm us.

Not so for our friend Gamma in Peace Corps El Salvador; apparently she spent the last two days stacking sandbags at the river's edge with her villagers.