Felix Aftermath

[Coredesat]

WOW take a look at the WV, Felix's remnants are everywhere! As far south as COSTA RICA is getting prolonged thunderstorms apparently! Didn't know it'd get that far south.

The convection seems to have exploded - not in terms of deepening, but it's literally all over the place right now; there's a large blob moving to the NW while some convection is to the south and over the EPAC.

[Zardoz]

...The convection seems to have exploded...

It really looks like it, doesn't it?

[fasterdisaster]

Yeesh must be pelting down in Campeche

[fasterdisaster]

Large band of thunderstorms just appeared out of nowhere from Panama to Nicaragua

[fasterdisaster]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iKi ... 3wEISb6j9A

BREAKING: Death toll in Nicaragua up to 21, likely to rise

[fasterdisaster]

BREAKING: Death toll in Nicaragua now up to 38 from Hurricane Felix

http://uk.reuters.com/article/environme ... 8720070906

[Sanibel]

Felix remnants bursting over Palenque rainforest in southern Mexico.

WSW to Pacific was illusion caused by blown-off core being swept SW by steering winds.

[fasterdisaster]

Is there a chance of that blob of Felix emerging into the Bay of Campeche(not thinking development, just wondering)?

[MiamiensisWx]

http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/227213.html

Here is an excerpt:

At the same time, though, a multinational effort began to aid the people of Puerto Cabezas and the rest of the hard-hit Mosquito Coast.

The U.S. Southern Command diverted the USS Wasp -- which resembles an aircraft carrier and can accommodate helicopters and some fixed-wing aircraft -- from an exercise in the Caribbean to the coast of Nicaragua to assist with disaster relief efforts.

A U.S. military Chinook helicopter, en route to the especially devastated region, stopped for fuel Wednesday at Managua's airport and was quickly approached by Nicaraguan authorities in need of help.

''We have various communities that have been completely destroyed,'' Nicaraguan Air Force Major Douglas Gonzalez said. ``Tuapi had 107 houses, and only seven are still there. And those don't have roofs.''

He said that ''everything was destroyed'' in a 20-mile stretch north of Puerto Cabezas.

A preliminary assessment by The Miami Herald suggested that he was right.

Edgar Benneth of the Morava Church said that all 19 of the church buildings in Puerto Cabezas were damaged and some have been demolished.

''In one church, there were people inside when the roof was torn off, and they were all running around and trying to get away,'' he said. ``But thank the Lord that only material things were damaged.''

As bad as things are in Puerto Cabezas, the worst devastation was said to be found 50 miles north in the communities that make up Sandy Bay -- a place that isn't on most maps.

''Tomorrow, the real work is going to begin in the outlying towns to the north, where there is the most devastation,'' said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Greg Jicha, head of the 14-member U.S. task force.

The task force received an unexpected welcome at the Puerto Cabezas air strip: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who was surrounded by local officials and Nicaraguan soldiers.

''We are greeting all those who have come to help,'' Ortega said. ``We want to recognize what they have done. We thank the American people for this help.''

Miami Herald senior writer Martin Merzer in Miami and special correspondent Tony Brand in Tegucigalpa contributed to this report.

It looks like the rural communities (north of Puerto Cabezas) took the brunt of the eyewall, but no images or information has been streaming from those small villages. I would not be surprised if Dean-type damage (ala Mahahual) occurred in those areas. It's amazing to note the resilience of those people (after Dean and Felix). They brush themselves off and rebuild their rural livelihoods without any help from the outside world. They deserve rounds of applause.

[kevin]

The world is so much different. To think of Daniel Ortega greeting US soldiers...

[PhillyWX]

This is not a pretty situation down there. Flooding is pretty widespread and the Red Cross is in need of help. This morning the only network I found covering Felix was Telemundo. None of the other networks gave it a passing amount of coverage other than a quick blurb.

Here are some images of the flooding in Honduras and Nicaragua below:

http://philadelphiaweather.blogspot.com ... erica.html

[Sanibel]

Puerto Cabesas (probably named after stacks of decapitated heads from the Mayans) was at least 10 miles south of the southern eyewall. My atlas put the center at landfall about 25 miles north of Puerto Cabesas. So Felix had much worse southern eyewall winds than Dean. Churches were crumbled in Puerto Cabesas, and they were probably made of stone.

[Chacor]

I have heard at least 42 dead, 200 missing.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Watching recon, the one that went in 3-4 hours before landfall. I seen that some of the wind reports at flight level. I think out of the southeast quad had 120+ knots with the southwestern was the 116 knots. So the southern eye wall likely holded at the surface 125-130 mph mph winds. That is strong. The northern we will never have a clue on how strong it was at landfall, because the systems eye cleared and reds had become more wide spread then even at its peak a day earlier. Dean only had about 100 knots at flight level in its southern eye wall, if I remember right.

[Dionne]

CNN is reporting that 70% of the towns on the Nicaraguan coast have yet to report. Most are remote.

[Derek Ortt]

48 now confired dead in Nicaragua

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/0 ... index.html

[HarlequinBoy]

Fox is reporting over 60 dead in Nicaragua and Honduras. =\

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295916,00.html

[Duddy]

Officials in Central America are bracing for the worst as rescue workers begin reaching areas obliterated by Hurricane Felix. Casualty reports have yet to come in from at least 70 percent of villages along the Nicaraguan coast, and thousands of Miskito indians are unaccounted for in Honduras.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/0 ... index.html

May God be with them

[cycloneye]

My prayers go to those who lost their loveones in this tragedy.

Las condolensias para todas las familias que han perdido sus seres queridos.

[Andrew92]

Felix, ya deserve this as we hope we NEVER see you again after what you've done. (preferably buried a thousand times deeper)

Prayers continue to pour out of my soul for those people in Central America after this tragic hurricane. And may we be able to help them all that we can.

-Andrew92