Hurricane Stan

A man uses a bucket to get water out of his home in one of the neighborhoods of the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, Oct. 4, 2005. Hurricane Stan slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast before quickly weakening to a tropical storm Oct. 4, forcing authorities to close one of the nation's busiest ports. Thousands of residents abandoned their homes and stayed in some of the 2,000 shelters set up all along the coastline.

A woman cries as she watches rescue workers carry the dead body of one of her relatives killed by a mudslide Oct. 4, 2005, in Santa Marta neighborhood, south of San Salvador, El Salvador. Heavy rains and floods from Hurricane Stan caused conditions that killed at least 39 people in El Salvador.

Members of the Red Cross evacuate children during flooding in Tepalon, Malacatoya, 40 miles south of Managua, Nicaragua, Oct. 3, 2005.

Rescue workers search for five members of the Flores family killed by a mudslide Oct. 4, 2005, in Santa Marta neighborhood, south of San Salvador, El Salvador.

Juan Vargas looks at the room where his neighbor, Mauren Arroyo, was killed when the hillside above her house gave way due to heavy rains and crashed into the house in Naranjo, Costa Rica, 35 miles northwest of San Jose, Oct. 4, 2005.

A woman and her children take refuge in a shelter at Puerto de San Jose, south of Guatemala City, Oct. 4, 2005.

Luis Gonzalez looks out from a shelter, in Cosamaloapan, Veracruz, Mexico, Oct. 4, 2005. Hurricane Stan, which whipped up maximum sustained winds of 80 mph before weakening to a tropical storm, came ashore along a sparsely populated stretch of coastline south of Veracruz, a major port 185 miles east of Mexico City.

A girl looks from inside her home at her brother walking through a flooded street Oct. 4, 2005, in San Salvador.

Relatives of victims of the mudslides mourn them Oct. 4, 2005 in Lourdes Colon, El Salvador.

Salvadorean people react as they look at their flooded street in Candelaria neighborhood 04 October, 2005 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Refugees have some food at a temporary shelter set in a primary school 04 October, 2005 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

A woman leaves her home wading through the flooded street Oct. 3, 2005 in San Jose, south of Guatemala City.

A female municipal rescuer takes part in an attempt to retrieve the bodies of members of a family killed by a mudslide Oct. 3, 2005 in El Salvador.

A Salvarorean soldier carries the body of a child killed in a landslide Oct. 3, 2005 in Lourdes Colon, El Salvador.

A woman wades through a flooded street of Puerto de San Jose, Guatemala, Oct. 3, 2005. Heavy rains and floods from Hurricane Stan hit Central America over the weekend.

Residents watch soldiers digging out people buried in a landslide Oct. 3, 2005, in Lourdes Colon, El Salvador.

Ventura Garcia Barahona cries after a landslide killed two of his relatives in El Salvador, Oct. 3, 2005.

Rescue workers, helped by police officers, remove mud as they look for victims in the wreckage of a house in El Salvador, Oct. 3, 2005.