Mud slide damage from Hurricane Stan

This is a bridge that was washed out by the flooding and mudslides from Hurrican Stan. I took this photo from the new bridge that was built to replace it, so I guess the Guatemalan infrastructure can work well in an emergency. This is on the road to Guatemala City from Lake Atitlan, I can't remember the name of the nearby town.
These are municipal buildings and the hospital in Santiago Atitlan that were ruined by the mudslide. In all the buildings in this photo the second floor has become the ground floor. Mom and Paul's neighbor Gail has been working at the local clinic, and was here during the disaster. She said the mudslide sounded like thunder. The torrential rains continued two days after the slide, which made efforts to find buried people fruitless, since holes would fill in as fast as they were dug.
If you look at the back of this picture you can see a canyon made from the mudslide that devastated Santiago, obliterating an entire neighborhood. All the bare ground pictured here used to be houses. Several hundred people died, many of whom are buried here; recovering the bodies proved so difficult, efforts were eventually abandoned.