And tonight, we have an update. When we spoke to Aragon an hour ago, he expressed his hope that sunny skies will mean receding waters and that those displaced will be able to return to their riverside homes.

Voice of: Elodio Aragon Sr., NEMO District Coordinator, Orange Walk
"It's a little bot better. I think everything has settled down already. We managed to attend to everybody, everything is under good control. We have delivered to people in the shelters that needed food. The boats are functioning well, on time and fortunately for us the weather has been good. Since it stop raining the sun has been shining. Once in a while it gets a little overcast, but no rain comes down. We are also aware that it doesn't have to rain here in Belize for us to get flooded. If it rains a lot in Mexico close to the west border then the rain water will run into our rivers and then overflood our villages. Right now it's okay, water from this morning was stagnant, it wasn't rising, it stopped and this evening you could see it has began to go down very little, but slowly. I believe if it continues like this without any rains I think by Monday we would be okay. There is no way you can assist every house not to get water inside. Those that lives too close to the river becomes flooded, we cannot help that. We have tried in the past to tell them you cannot build your house too close to the water edge, because a flood will cause damage to you house, but you cannot force them not to. It's the same with Douglas in 1960's they were told your place is getting flooded every year. What we are going to do is find higher ground and help you to move, we are going to give you the land and they agreed, but when the time came to move they refused to move. A few of the younger people did move, the rest did not and they don't care. They said I don't care, I was born here, I grew here, I will die here."

The National Hydrological Service has produced another forecast on the state of the country's rivers.

The Blue Creek Sub catchment of the Rio Hondo remains above the historically recorded levels from Hurricane Mitch. Levels near Santa Cruz, San Antonio, San Roman, and Douglas continue to rise.

So, at this time, the Hondo remains under a flood warning, and, again, those waters will continue to rise at Santa Cruz, San Antonio, San Roman, And Douglas.

The New River at Caledonia is above normal, but it continues to fall slowly.

On the Belize River, levels at Banana Bank and Double Run are normal and steady. The Crooked Tree Lagoon is below the causeway, but it is slowly rising.