Later on we'll show you what the Mopan river looked like in Succotz - where we did see people fishing.
And as the song says, "when the rain falls, it don't fall on one man house" - and Belize is just getting a taste of what has been much worse for our Central American neighbours in Nicaragua, Honduras and even Guatemala - all in the path of the former Hurricane Eta - now a tropical depression.
The AFP news service captured the following video from Puerto Barrios, that small Guatemalan coastal city well known to Belizeans.
Two storm victims gave accounts of enduring Eta.