Another flooded community: Billwuin is on the northern Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.

People are burying the dead. Above, the funeral procession of the children of the Pascual family, who were killed in a mudslide.

Disease and decay also is a threat. Rigoberto Hernandez, 26, covers his nose to avoid the smell of a decaying bull in the Bajos de Choloma, 15 kilometers from San Pedro Sula on the northwestern coast of Honduras.