Tropical Storm Pilar loomed ominously off the Pacific Coast of Central America, provoking heavy rains that washed away crops and displaced hundreds of people as the death toll rose to at least four. "Most of the crops of the community's farmers are lost. Many of them have lost their fields, their animals (...). This is what happens here when this community gets flooded," says a resident of Zacatecoluca in El Salvador. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES