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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Hurricane Mitch
From: amagayneroshak at gmail.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:35:45 -0600

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 10:52 AM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> PESO:
>
> These are the slides I'm scanning now.  I got to Honduras 2 days after
> Mitch hit and was there for two weeks.  I have over 5000 slides, most of
> which have never been scanned before.
>
> On October 29th, Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras. The storm
> killed over 7000 people in Honduras alone, over 11,000 in all of Central
> America. In Tegucigalpa, the Choluteca River was dammed up by debris and
> water rose to the 3rd story of the buildings downtown. Whole neighborhoods
> slid into the river. I was there to document the effect on the people and
> to raise money for relief efforts. The second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane
> on record affected everyone in Honduras and many have never recovered from
> the devastation.
>
> https://pbase.com/tinamanley/mitch&page=all
>
> C&C greatly appreciated.
>
> Tina
================================================================
Fine work, as usual, but so very hard to look through, because of the
devastation.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amagayneroshak at gmail.com
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt


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