Felix Aftermath

[Derek Ortt]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070907/ts_ ... m_felix_dc

possibly 168 dead in Nicaragua as of a few days ago

Has anyone heard of anything else?

[Buck]

Nope, news has been very, very slow especially as of late. I'm afraid we aren't going to hear much for a while and then they'll drop a bomb of a very large, possibly 4-digit number.

[Cyclenall]

Nope, news has been very, very slow especially as of late. I'm afraid we aren't going to hear much for a while and then they'll drop a bomb of a very large, possibly 4-digit number.

Does anyone remember how this unfolded with Hurricane Mitch? I mean the way the death toll came out, all at once as a shocking number or slowly over the weeks/days?

[Buck]

From what I remember, it continued to climb for weeks... months even but we got updates more often than we are right now for Felix.

[Derek Ortt]

has anything else came out, or has Nicaragua and Honduras decided not to report the number of dead?

[HurricaneBill]

ReliefWeb has a situation report that lists 102 deaths, 35 unconfirmed deaths, and 86 missing.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KKAA-7774BU?OpenDocument

[Dionne]

223 possible deaths.....the Misquito Indians must be incredibly tenacious to have escaped with such a low count! (Providing the count is correct?)

[HurricaneBill]

According to this article, the toll is higher. (200 dead, 277 missing)

Miskito Indians' troubles put issues in context

[HurricaneBill]

Flattened by hurricane, Mosquito Coast faces hunger and disease

[HurricaneBill]

According to this report: 300 dead, 106 missing

Press Releases: Hurricane Felix - Sep 2007, IRCS responds to Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua

[Dionne]

Everywhere you search online the numbers are different. Even the population numbers on the Miskito coast are not consistent. I don't think anyone really knows the correct counts.