|
Article Excerpt
Hurricane Felix's perfectly carved core hit Nicaragua's Caribbean coast Tuesday morning, Sept. 4, a buzz saw spinning at 260 km/h cutting down everything standing. The Category 5 storm faded fast as it came ashore, but only to destroy with water what it did not smash with wind. "Our most serious problems in this region are just beginning," said a worker for the Irish aid agency GOAL in the Mosquito Coast town of Puerto Lempira, Honduras. As its internal speed slowed, so did Felix's forward progress, the better to drown towns and villages in endless downpour.
"The major concern now shifts to the threat of torrential rains over the mountains of Central America," said Richard Pasch at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami. "Isolated maximum totals of 25 inches are possible."
The US-based meteorologist went on to recommend that persons living in flood-prone areas take precautions, seemingly unaware that he was talking about people who had nowhere to go, no way to get there. For some, reported the Irish aid worker Luigi Lotto, the extent of precautions was to dig shallow trenches and cover...
|
|
More articles from NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
WORK STARTS ON PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION., September 06, 2007
HONDURAS AUTHORIZES DIRECT FUEL IMPORTS, BREAKS MULTINATIONAL MONOPOLY..., September 06, 2007
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|
