Talked with Janet at Casa Palopo on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala this morning, ten days after we fled the hotel in the middle of tropical storm Agatha, which ultimately killed some 150 people in Central America. The news, thankfully, is pretty good, considering.
There was some slight damage around the hotel. It was isolated, cut off from road access to the villages on either side of the hotel for a week, until Sunday, but yesterday the road was opened all the way to Panajachel, the main town on the lake. Until then, the staff had been coming to work by boat.
Three employees' houses were damaged by mud slides but nobody's family was injured.
Casa Palopo is closed until Friday.
Photo was taken driving away from Lake Atitlan during tropical storm Agatha on Saturday, 29 May. More photos are going up this week in the Guatemala Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
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