Nicaragua ? Thousands of people remained in shelters in Nicaragua and Honduras on Monday after Hurricane Beta swept across the Central American nations, flooding rivers, downing trees and destroying houses, churches, medical centers and schools.

The remnants of Beta drifted over the eastern Pacific on Monday, and forecasters said there was a slight chance the storm could reform over the ocean.

Packing winds up to 105 mph, Beta dumped as much as 15 inches of rain in Nicaragua and neighboring Honduras, where its outer bands of rain caused four rivers to overflow, isolated communities and damaged crops.

The record 13th hurricane of this year’s Atlantic storm season made landfall Sunday on Nicaragua’s central coast as a Category 2 hurricane before quickly weakening to a tropical storm and eventually becoming a tropical depression before beginning to dissipate.

Nicaraguan Civil Defense Chief Col. Mario Perez Cassar said 80 percent of the buildings on the central coast were heavily damaged or destroyed.

“But miraculously, only four people were reported missing and only one was injured,” Perez said.

No serious injuries or deaths were reported in Honduras.