At a Glance

Tropical Cyclone Kenneth destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least 38 people in Mozambique.The Category 4-equivalent storm brought flooding and landslides to the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Comoros.More than 22 inches of rain have fallen since Thursday and more is expected.Aid workers have to wait out the rain to fly supplies to victims.

Pounding rain is keeping desperately need supplies from reaching victims of Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique, officials said Tuesday.

The government continues to implore residents to flee to higher ground as flooding plagues the city of Pemba where the cyclone came ashore last Thursday. More than 22 inches of rain has fallen since then, and another 3 inches is expected in the next 24 hours, according to the Associated Press.

The death toll stands at 38 in Mozambique, which was slammed by Cyclone Idai only six weeks ago. At least four people were killed in the island nation of Comoros.

Kenneth has completely or partly destroyed more than 35,000 homes and buildings, the government reports. Tens of thousands of people in Macomia and Quissanga districts north of Pemba and on Ibo island need food and shelter.

"These people lost everything," U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Gemma Connell told AP. "It is critical that we get them the food that they need to survive." Women and children have been the hardest hit "without the basics that they need to get by," especially shelter, she said.

A lull in the rain Tuesday allowed aid workers to send some food and supplies to Quissanga and to Matemo island just north of there.

The powerful Cyclone Kenneth made landfall early Thursday at the northern end of Mozambique's Quirimbas National Park in the Cabo Delgado province. The area where it made landfall in a "sparsely populated apart from a number of villages with of this magnitude," noted Wunderground meteorologist Bob Henson.

The tropical cyclone came just six weeks after Idai killed at least 600 people in Mozambique alone, making this the only time in recorded history that two tropical cyclones of at least Category 2 strength have hit the country in the same year.

Fallen trees are pictured on a road on April 25, 2019, in Moroni after tropical storm Kenneth hit Comoros before heading to recently cyclone-ravaged Mozambique. Cyclone Kenneth passed the Indian Ocean archipelago nation Comoros today but its effects, including high winds and heavy rains, were still being felt, the country's Meteorological Office wrote on Facebook. (Ibrahim Youssouf/AFP/Getty Images)