Tropical Disaster in Mexico

LA PINTADA, Mexico — Armed with shovels, hydraulic equipment and anything else they can muster, search crews are desperately digging in La Pintada, searching for victims of a massive landslide; sixty-eight people were still among the missing as of Monday morning.
The Mexican army's emergency response and rescue team slogged in several feet of mud and incessant rain with rescue dogs, recovering a total of five bodies as of Sunday, including a man found wedged under the collapsed roof of a dirt-filled home.
Survivors staying at a shelter in Acapulco recounted how a tidal wave of dirt, rocks and trees exploded through the center of town, burying families in their homes and sweeping wooden houses into the bed of the swollen river that winds past the village on its way to the Pacific
The scene by Sunday was desolate, a ghost town where 50 people still awaited evacuation. One man remained to care for abandoned goats, pigs and chickens that seemed disoriented as they roamed about.
When the rains get too hard, the crew has to stop for fear of being buried themselves by another slide