The death toll from Hurricane Felix has risen to 38 as the storm wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.
As Nicaraguan soldiers searched the area around Puerto Cabezas port, the navy tried to reach settlements on marshy spits of land or on keys to look for more casualties from Felix, which hit the coast on Tuesday as an extremely powerful Category Five hurricane.
Visiting the area, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said about 9,000 homes in the area were destroyed. Residents worked with police and soldiers to try to clear dozens of uprooted trees lying in the street.
But the storm weakened to a tropical depression after entering Honduras on Tuesday and residents of the capital, Tegucigalpa, appeared to escape major damage this time around.
There were no reports of deaths in Honduras.
Felix came on the heels of another Category Five hurricane, Hurricane Dean, which last month killed 27 people in the Caribbean and Mexico last month.
Far to the north west, Hurricane Henriette ploughed into Mexico for a second time in two days near the port city of Guaymas with top sustained winds of over 120 km/h and weakened into a tropical storm as it headed inland. Seven deaths were reported from the Pacific storm, which hit Baja California on Tuesday.