Floods in southern Mexico have forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes:

“New Orleans was small compared to this,” said state Governor Andres Granier, comparing the disaster to the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Area rivers continued to swell due to the non-stop rain, and more than 850 towns have been flooded in the Gulf of Mexico state, officials said.

More here. I’m not seeing a great deal of coverage of this in the news this week (the latest political debate seems to be the story of the week). Perhaps between the California fires and Hurricane Noel it’s getting tough to keep up with all the natural disasters…