"This is a country where about half the population doesn't have enough food to eat on any given day," Hackworth says. The trouble is, many of these makeshift shelters "were never designed to hold this many people," Hackworth adds, especially with the coronavirus pandemic making cramped spaces indoors particularly dangerous for evacuees. He says in Honduras, where he is based, that means a collaboration between authorities and international aid groups to set up workable shelters and get evacuees safely into them. "Right now, it's a race just to keep up among those trying to help," Matt Hackworth of tells NPR's Lunes 16 de Noviembre, y empieza a oscurecer en #Bilwi, Costa Caribe Norte de Nicaragua, las ráfagas de vientos del huracán #Iota se sienten cada vez fuerte y alcanzan los 260KM/h The pair of haymakers, Hurricanes Eta and Iota, made landfall just 15 miles apart along Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, delivering a one-two punch that has residents reeling and officials scrambling to offer relief. "While the winds of Iota are weakening, there are still life-threatening hazards ongoing for entral America, including flash flooding and mud slides, which could result in potentially catastrophic effects, especially when compounded upon Hurricane Eta's destruction from a couple of weeks ago," the National Hurricane Center explained in its Landslides that racked the region from Panama to Mexico, before finally breaking up Made landfall as a Category 4 storm in its own right. Hurricane Iota represents a challenging threat to a region that is already struggling to recover from another recent catastrophe: Just two weeks before Iota came ashore, Hurricane Eta Get the latest: /4VfxUgW38e- NOAA Satellites November 17, 2020 says damaging winds, flash flooding, and landslides are expected across the region today.
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While the full extent of the damage from Eta won’t be known for a while, the powerful storm, combined with the coronavirus pandemic, may have effects that last for years.#HurricaneIota (seen here by #GOESEast this morning) is now a Category-1 #hurricane as it moves over Central America.
More than 3.6 million people across Central America have been affected by the storm to varying degrees, the Red Cross said earlier this week. This is the latest in the year there has ever been a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Basin, according to the hurricane center. It is the 13th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which has left its mark as a historic season bringing 30 named storms – the most ever. On November 3, Hurricane Eta made landfall as a Category 4 storm, causing landslides and flooding that displaced thousands and left scores of people dead or missing. Iota will be the second major hurricane to hit the area in as many weeks. People try to recover belongings amid mud after the passage of Hurricane Eta as they prepare to evacuate the Omonita neighborhood in El Progreso, Yoro department, Honduras. Swells will be felt from Central America to the Yucatan Peninsula, as far east as Jamaica and as far south as Colombia.Ĭentral America still recovering from Eta The predicted storm surge along the coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras will be accompanied by “large and destructive waves,” along with swells that cause “life-threatening surf and rip current conditions,” according to the advisory. Such high rainfall amounts will “lead to significant, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding, along with mudslides in areas of higher terrain,” the advisory warned. Rainfall accumulations throughout Central America are expected to be high, with Honduras, northern Nicaragua, Guatemala and southern Belize seeing between 8 and 16 inches and isolated accumulations of 20 to 30 inches possible in northeast Nicaragua and northern Honduras, according to the advisory.Ĭosta Rica and Panama should also see about 4 to 8 inches, with up to 12 inches possible in some areas. Nicaraguan Navy sailors help evacuate people from the Karata and Wawa Bar communities ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Iota in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua Sunday.
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