Two years after Hurricane "mix": indigenous response in the rain forest of eastern Honduras.

On Monday, October 26th 1998, news of the storm known as Mitch spread quickly through Krausirpi, an indigenous community along the Patuca River, deep in the rain forest of eastern Honduras' Mosquitia region. From the village's only functioning transistor radio, Tawahka residents heard that the hurricane was bearing down on the coast, about 250 km to the northwest. Anticipating torrential rain and wind, they burst into action. Whole families set out to bring in what they could of the year's drying rice crop. They secured their dugout canoes along the riverbank, and gathered chicken