"We woke up without electricity, with rain and the surf is getting really high. "The situation doesn't look good at all," she said. That storm surge was on the mind of Yasmina Wriedt in Bilwi's El Muelle neighborhood, which sits tight against the sea. Not even two weeks later, Hurricane Iota made landfall on November 17, 2020. It was centered about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east of Isla de Providencia, Colombia, and was. Communities 'frightened' as they brace for second storm Hurricanes Eta and Iota and Honduras On November 3, 2020, Hurricane Eta made landfall in Honduras as a Category 4 storm, affecting more than 1.8 million people. The hurricane center said Iota had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph) late Sunday. "The biggest problem we have right now is that we don't have fuel to keep on evacuating people on boats."Įta was about 130 kilometres east-southeast of Puerto Cabezas, also known as Bilwi, Nicaragua, and moving westward at 15kph.Īuthorities warned that Iota would probably come ashore over areas where Eta's torrential rains saturated the soil, leaving it prone to new landslides and floods, and the storm surge could reach 4.5 to 6 metres above normal tides. "There are villages that can protect or save themselves, but others cannot cope with this catastrophe after Eta," said Teonela Wood, mayor of Honduras' Brus Laguna municipality, which she said was home to more than 17,000 people. Wendy Guadalupe Contreras in Honduras, who was left homeless after the last storm hit, is now bracing for Hurricane Iota. Local authorities and the navy frantically tried to get thousands of families to higher ground or ports in Nicaragua's Miskito region of jungles, rivers and coastline, which also straddles Honduras and took a direct hit from Eta. The World Food Programme warned that some 80,000 people in Nicaragua were at risk from Iota, while Honduran authorities said they were evacuating another 80,000 people. In El Salvador, the government declared a "red alert" ahead of Iota, suspending school and activating emergency funding. It came ashore just 25 kilometres south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall on November 3, also as a Category 4 storm.Įta's torrential rains saturated the soil in the region, leaving it prone to new landslides and floods, and that the storm surge could reach 4.5 to 6 meters above normal tides. The US National Hurricane Center said the storm had maximum sustained winds of 260 kilometres per hour. Forecasters are now watching two systems – one in the southern Caribbean and another just south of Bermuda - which each have a 20 percent chance of becoming named storms in the next five days.Hurricane Iota intensified on Monday (local time) over the western Caribbean on approach to Nicaragua and Honduras. National Weather Service, is due to end November 30. Iota was the 30th named storm of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which, according to the U.S. Hurricane Iota battered Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf Tuesday, chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes along the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful hurricane just two weeks ago. It left scores of communities cut off from the outside world and forced thousands of residents to evacuate their homes.Īt least nine people across the region have been killed, including two children who reportedly drowned while trying to cross a flooded river in Nicaragua. hurricane classification of Category 4, followed by Hurricane Iota. At its strongest, Iota was a Category 5 storm - the top level on the five-level scale that measures a storm’s potential destructiveness. of South America were affected by two major natural hazards - Hurricane Eta. The storm came ashore late Monday on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, just kilometers from where Hurricane Eta had struck two weeks earlier. 16 as the strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in Nicaragua. A man watches the rising water of the Rio Bermejo in the wake of Hurricane Iota in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Nov. Hurricane Iota made a catastrophic landfall on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua last week, just 13 days after Hurricane Eta’s landfall. With up to 155 mph winds, Hurricane Iota smashed record books on Nov.
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