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Hurricane Beta hit Nicaragua as a Category 2 storm with winds of 170km/hr near Sandy Bay Sirpi, 310 km northeast of Managua, on Oct. 30, causing floods, ripping off roofs, and toppling trees. It then swept across the country, weakening as it went, but dropping as much as 40 cm of rain before the afternoon was over. Acting on forecaster's predictions, authorities had evacuated thousands of people from the far eastern town of Gracias a Dios and along the Rio Coco on the Honduran border, some 200 km north of the impact point. The miscalculation did not immediately result in deaths.
But the surprise...
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