LA CEIBA, Honduras — Hurricane Felix roared ashore early Tuesday as a fearsome Category 5 storm — the first time in recorded history that two top-scale storms have come ashore in the same season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras border, home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians dependent on canoes to make their way to safety.
Hurricane Dean came ashore just last month as a Category 5 storm, and
Felix’s landfall marked the first time that two Category 5 hurricanes
have hit land in a season since 1886, according to the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Only 31 such storms have been recorded in the Atlantic, including eight in the past five seasons.
“This
is an extremely dangerous and potentially catastrophic hurricane. We
just hope everybody has taken the precautions necessary to protect life
and property,” Richard Pasch, a hurricane specialist at the National
Hurricane Center, said Tuesday.
The storm is following the same path as 1998’s Hurricane Mitch, a sluggish storm that stalled for a week over Central America, killing nearly 11,000 people and leaving more than 8,000 missing, mostly in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Anyone interesting in helping those down in Honduras please visit Hope For Honduras and make a donation or sign up for a trip down there to help with disaster relief.
Shout Out: To my friends in Honduras who endure more than most could comprehend without the factors of a hurricane. May GOD watch over you all.
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