Picture your house being like this, what would you do?
Where would you go?
You don't know anything about that.
Like, you can’t imagine, I wasn't even able to imagine, if this happens to me what I'm
going to do.
I didn't even recognise it.
Yeah, there was a structure.
There was still a ceiling.
But there was mud everywhere.
It stinks.
When I got into my house.
Stuff from the kitchen was in the bedrooms.
And I was like, ‘How did this even get here?’
I don't know.
Like, I don't know.
I barely remember right now.
The TV... everything was… there was nothing left.
I have a grandma.
She's 75 years old.
I have two brothers.
My older brother.
He's 29 years old.
My little sister.
She's, well, she's not little anymore.
She's 18 years old.
My mum.
My mum is almost 50 and I have two dogs, Beethoven and Maya.
They're basically family.
We are a little town that took a lot of years to be where we are now.
In front of my house.
It was like a main street.
In the morning, you could hear the cars passing every five seconds.
At the beginning it was bothering me, you know the noise, but I got used to it after
time.
And people like walking on the street, you know, going to work, kids going to school.
All of these things I just mentioned, were underwater.
And everything, for them also, was lost.
Late at night, we weren’t really able to see anything.
It was raining real hard and my family were like going here going there, checking the
rivers, moving from one place to another.
I grabbed my computer, I put it in the car.
And I was like, okay, some clothes.
Because you have to think fast.
When we were at the car.
Water started coming from the back of my house.
‘Take this, take that.
Take the dogs’.
The dogs were not showing up like we were calling them.
The house was so dark.
Even the lights were like going down and everything was crazy.
It was kind of a movie.
But yeah, we were able to take the car out and take the family and the dogs didn’t
show up, unfortunately.
It was kind of like, ‘Where should we go?’
Like, we don't even know what's coming in front of us.
We don't know if it's in the road.
If we're going to be able to cross.
At that moment.
We were just trying to survive, like water is coming.
I was thinking of my dogs the whole time.
I was crying on the way.
We used to be the people.
My family used to be the people that would help others when stuff like this happened.
When we got home.
My mum she tried to stay strong for us, however, but when she saw the house she started crying,
she went down.
And then she was trying to stand up.
My brother was holding her.
My sister, she was also like, she wanted to cry and her eyes were so red.
Maybe she wasn't hearing the words, but she saw us.
My grandma, we didn't even take her to the house because it could make her feel really
bad pretty quickly because she gets nervous and, you know, the tension and everything.
My neighbour, he stayed in his home.
And he said, I got your dogs, I put them on the top of my car, which is full of water.
We were like, thank you so much, you saved them.
Thank God he saved them.
Water and this type of mud typically will destroy everything within the home so that
even if the home was made of concrete, the concrete walls might still be there.
But they've really got to start over.
Some, some people won't fully be able to piece it back together.
I've been in a lot of situations where many years later, it's still never ever able to
get back to where they were.
And you also look at a lot of these situations.
You know, a piece of infrastructure like someone's home might be multi-generational.
So that was a home that their grandfathers built, and that has taken multiple generations
to turn it into a home that they once had.
There will be people in shelters here for quite some time.
People that really don't have anything to go back to.
When the storm was still happening, we tried to move around a little bit and tried to get
people to safe places as well to shelters.
It's obvious that you couldn’t just stay and do nothing.
Thankfully, there's been a lot of solidarity among Honduran people.
And people you know, there's a saying ‘El pueblo salva al pueblo’, which means the
people save the people.
So we're all showing up, as a family or as a group of friends.
Whenever I go to a shelter, I find like three other groups who are already there as well.
You know, delivering other things.
And we are not trying to leave anyone behind, we're trying to do as much as I can to make
sure everyone's cared for.
In my country it takes a lot of time to just purchase a TV.
I'm just thinking like, how we are going to be able to even purchase a bed when my mum
basically has no job because the school got lost also in this thing.
What's coming for us now?
We have no clue.
And as a person, I think that this is going to be a crazy story to tell to my kids in
the future.
I survived this.