In Oaxaca Mexico on a remote hillside a town, Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, was hit overnight by a landslide. Rescue teams are having trouble getting in due to a raging river cut off the main bridge and many other roads covered by the landslid. Helicopters were grounded by the bad weather as well. Only a few soldiers reach the town and discover there is less deaths than initially reported and the damage was not the magnitude initially estimated. By late afternoon, today, there were 4 dead and 12 missing. The slid dragged homes 1,300 feet downhill burring them. There is 10,000 residents and 8,000 of them were impacted by this landslid. The landslid were due to the large amount of rain that Mexico has been having this year. The rain is expected to continue which means there could be more slides to come.
The town warned people that there was a possibility of a landslide due to all the rain and many huddled to the the central part of town. It is hard to stop a landslide especially since there is no way to know if it will be coming. Since this town is surrounded by sand hills it's in an area of high risk for landslides and the community needs to know when the risk are high and what to do when one hits. There are no pictures at this time, but once rescuers can get in then pictures should be up of how the town looks.
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