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Re: Hurricane FELIX:Caribbean-Discussions & Imagery 8 AM pag 80

#1721 Postby srainhoutx » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:01 pm

Tireman4 wrote:We have not heard anything yet from my wife's family in Honduras. They live in San Pedro Sula. I hope to hear something today.


Tireman4, you and your family, as well as all affected by Felix, are in my families thoughts and prayers today. I am very concerned that we may hear of numbers like Mitch and Stan in the coming days. Truely a horrible event.
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#1722 Postby wxmann_91 » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:19 pm

MiamiensisWx wrote:I think Puerto Cabezas and other communities to the north experienced a significant storm surge, which could explain the reports of severe damage. Additionally, I suspect significant wind damage and erosion has occurred near the landfall point and within the eyewall. At this point, I think Dean and Felix are done; unfortunately, these names likely will live in infamy as horrendously destructive events. I would be shocked if they are not retired.

I don't think Puerto Cabezas received any storm surge damage; the winds were blowing offshore there. Most likely all the damage is wind damage.
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Re: T S FELIX:Caribbean-Discussions & Imagery 8 PM pag 87

#1723 Postby cycloneye » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:57 pm

AT 800 PM EDT...0000Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM FELIX WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 14.1 NORTH...LONGITUDE 85.4 WEST OR ABOUT
135 MILES...220 KM...WEST OF PUERTO CABEZAS NICARAGUA. THIS IS ALSO
ABOUT 125 MILES...200 KM EAST OF TEGUCIGALPA HONDURAS.

FELIX IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 13 MPH...21 KM/HR...AND THIS
GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ON
THIS TRACK...THE CENTER WILL BE MOVING OVER HONDURAS TONIGHT AND
EARLY WEDNESDAY.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO NEAR 60 MPH...
95 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. CONTINUED RAPID WEAKENING IS EXPECTED
AS FELIX MOVES OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL AMERICA DURING THE
NEXT 24 HOURS.
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#1724 Postby Derek Ortt » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:12 pm

Puerto Cabezas most certainly would get a surge

Areas in the eywall where the wind blow offshore most certainly receive a destructive surge. The wave action alone is enough to produce several feet of surge
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#1725 Postby PhillyWX » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:13 pm

CrazyC83 wrote:Information is going to be fairly slow to get in, as these countries for the most part lack the communications, especially when many go down.


The story on this could take a couple of days to unfold, at minimum. Mitch and Stan's horrors weren't immediately known either.
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#1726 Postby PhillyWX » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:15 pm

In the last few frames of the satellite loop Felix appears to be slipping south of due west but rapid decay of the internal core is taking place. I would be surprised if advisories on being run on this past 5 AM tomorrow.
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#1727 Postby Rod Hagen » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:21 pm

My thoughts and best wishes to all with family and friends in the area.

Felix has been major news in Australia. Let us all hope that when solid information gets out that the world honours its responsibilities to assist all who have been hurt by it.

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#1728 Postby gotoman38 » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:45 pm

Stratosphere747 wrote:http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/

16:04 | Ortega decreta estado de desastre
El presidente Daniel Ortega decretó estado de desastre en la Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte, RAAN, tras el paso del huracán “Félix”, que causó cuantiosos daños materiales en el tendido eléctrico, en líneas...
-Noticia relacionada: RAAN incomunicada e intransitable
-Noticia relacionada: Cesó lluvia e inicia limpieza en Puerto Cabezasa

16:03 | Huracán Félix “perdona” a RAAS
La Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur, RAAS, no sufrió las secuelas del paso del huracán “Félix”. Sin embargo, se evacuaron unas 200 familias de los municipios de la Laguna de Perla y de la desembocadura de río Grande de Matagalpa, para...

Foto 16:13 | Capital de Honduras en “alerta roja”
Tegucigalpa, la capital de Honduras, se encuentra en "alerta roja", de emergencia, ante las fuertes lluvias del huracán "Félix" que azotarán hoy y mañana la región oriental y centro de este país centroamericano. La "alerta...


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#1729 Postby gotoman38 » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:46 pm

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18:25 | Felix dismantled health units
The Minister of Health, Juana Maritza How Machado, informed that the hurricane Felix dismantled the facilities of the Hospital “New Dawn” of Port Heads, just as the Center into Health and the School of Infirmary, and now the doctors take care of...

nationals 17:02 | Ortega decrees disaster state
The government decreed to the State of Disaster in the territories of the Independent Region of Atla'ntico Norte (RAAN) after the devastating step of the hurricane “Felix” who until yesterday, according to preliminary data, had left four people...
-the related News: 5 thousand 505 destroyed houses
-the related News: Incomunicada and impassable RAAN
-the related News: It stopped rain and it initiates cleaning in Port Head

16:03 | Hurricane Felix “pardons” to RAAS
The Independent Region of the South Atlantic, RAAS, did not undergo the sequels of the passage of the hurricane “Felix”. Nevertheless, 200 families of the municipalities of the Lagoon of Per it and the mouth of river Grande de Matagalpa evacuated themselves, for...
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#1730 Postby jaxfladude » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:00 pm

WOW 2 CAT 5 Hurricane at landfall in the same season just historic...


Prayers added for all affected by CAT 5 Dean and Felix....double retirement!!
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#1731 Postby fasterdisaster » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:13 pm

Wow so in Puerto Cabezas alone at the VERY LEAST(and likely to rise IMO) 5,505 houses were destroyed?!
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#1732 Postby theworld » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:17 pm

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04/09/2007 - 21:42 (GMT)

Managua, 4 sep (ACAN-EFE) - Three deceaseds, ten injured, a disappear, severe material damages and 13,000 evacuees has left to the hurricane "Felix" to its pass today by Nicaragua, according to a report disclosed this late by civil employees of the government.

The representative of the Government in the Caribbean, Lumberto Campbell, during a meeting of work with president Daniel Ortega, informed that the population affected by the meteor, according to preliminary data, is of 38,000 people.

The source indicated that 5,500 houses have been damaged and that in the North Caribbean of the country there are communities with a 80 percent of the houses without ceiling, by the violence of winds of up to 260 kilometers per hour of the cyclone.

Campbell said that a girl new born passed away by cold in the shelter to which she was evacuated with his mother, in a temple moravo of Port Heads, capital of the North Caribbean of Nicaragua.

"the mother of the girl did not shelter it very well, neglected and the girl perished", confirmed to Acan-Efe the lieutenant colonel Alvaro Rivas of the Civil defense, that considered to the minor like an indirect victim of the hurricane.

The other passed away person is a man who repaired the ceiling of his house damaged by the cyclone, and the third mortal victim has been a person who perished buried by her own house, that collapsed because of huracanados winds.

Campbell wrote down that hundreds of the 13,000 people evacuated already have left the 73 shelters and have begun to return to their homes of origin, after stopping the violence of winds.

The director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter), Alexander Rodriguez, affirmed that "Felix" degraded itself to category two to its pass by Nicaragua and that he will enter limitrofe Honduras by the province of Olancho.

Rodriguez noticed that the cloud bands of the cyclone will originate rains of almost 400 millimeters, which does not discard will cause floods when crossing the territory from the Caribbean to the north of Nicaragua.

According to the preliminary report of the Civil defense, the coastal districts of Port Heads remain flooded and the current forts have returned impassable the access routes to the city.

The Nicaraguan authorities also report material damages, although nonvictims, in other communities of the North Caribbean.

In the municipality of Waspam and Cabo Thanks to God (border with Honduras) the local authorities asked for with urgency combustible and foods for almost 3,000 people.

The National Assembly today suspended its plenary session because of the passage of the hurricane, whose "eye" passed by the country.

The legislators requested to reform the budget of the nation and to assign greater resources to the zones affected by the hurricane.

Before the arrival of the cyclone, the government of Nicaragua decreed alerts red (of answer), for the North Caribbean, alerts yellow (of monitoring), for the South Caribbean, and alerts green (preventive), for the rest of the national territory. ACAN-EFE fm/lfp
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#1733 Postby theworld » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:24 pm

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They report damages of the hurricane in Port Heads

Overflowed rivers, two destroyed bridge, a wharf divided and severe destructions in the houses are the first devastating effects of the hurricane Felix to their pass by Nicaragua, where -5:15 a.m. with noticeable violence entered the dawn of Tuesday.


The wharf of Port Heads, constructed from concrete base of and wood surface was party in two, after which the strong winds made yield to the harbor terminal. Also of Port Heads the first death is reported, an infant who apparently died of cold in one of the refuge campings.


The first in potable water and frazadas calls request, were sent this morning from Bluefields, by Lumberto Campbell, that has been outstanding by the government in that zone to face the disaster. Campbell also took part along with William Ramirez when the hurricane took place “Joan” in 1988.


A report of damages that arrived at Managua coming from Port Heads, indicates that probably a 20% of the houses have been totally destroyed by the Felix “hurricane”, meanwhile a 50% could lose its zinc ceilings, that flew by airs with the first gusts of winds of more than 200 kilometers.


Meanwhile a boat that did not manage to return to port, maintained a dramatic radial contact with the port authorities Heads, with hopes of which they manage to surpass this difficult critical moment, when moving away the phenomenon towards Honduras.


On the other hand there is sense of expectancy to know what happened in Prinzapolka, where to the edge of the noon did not know the magnitude the damages, but one inquires that they could reach catastrophic levels. Almost all the rivers of the sector of the Atlantic have been overflowed by the torrential heavy showers that have accompanied the atmospheric phenomenon.
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#1734 Postby RL3AO » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:27 pm

Is it just my eyes, or is Felix moving WSW?
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#1735 Postby theworld » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:31 pm

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#1736 Postby theworld » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:34 pm

http://www-usa.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2007/septiembre/04/noticias/ultimahora/213594.shtml
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The communities Krukira, Bismuna and Barra de Sandy Bay, totally were devastated this mañana by destructive huracán Félix, that penetró national territory like ciclón of categoría five, late indicated this preliminary information of the Comité of Special Operations of the Ejército of Nicaragua. The winds that reached a speed of 260 kilómetros per hour dañaron approximately 5.500 houses, leaving four died and damaging to más of 35 thousand people, agregó the same source....
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#1737 Postby theworld » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:35 pm

Here yall go, ABC newslinks worldwide..

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#1738 Postby fasterdisaster » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:40 pm

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#1739 Postby gotoman38 » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:08 pm

http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2007/09 ... ales/58043

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Port Head is living “a misfortune”

The destroyed houses are countless so much partial as total, the ceilings fly, even the roof of the shelters
Fermín Lopez | flopez@elnuevodiario.com.ni

So and as the Mayoress of Port had foretold to it Head, Nancy Elizabeth Enríquez, the Caribbean ones “are living a misfortune”.

“We are going to have enough misfortune if the hurricane gets to us to beat”, said Enríquez yesterday. Today their fears were made reality. “There are no foods, there are no water, there are no food”.

To 4:20 of the dawn the winds stopped being normal in Port Head and from that hour the situation has not returned to the calm. The destroyed houses are countless so much partial as total, the ceilings fly, even the roof of the shelters.

At least thousand victims, who were sheltered in two churches, feel on their heads the fury of Felix after their shelters were undressed of the ceilings.

In the streets an invisible exterminator reigns who takes trees, houses, ceilings, dull posts and causes that everything seems to dance the dance of the disaster in the air, that flagellates with maximum winds of 260 kilometers per hour.

The ceilings of the churches Santa Trinidad, where there are 800 refugees, and Assemblies of God, located in the German district and where are 200 people, rose by powerful winds and they were lost in the distance. A hospital improvised in the Inatec and the regional house of government also suffered damages by whips of Felix.
It alerts red
The government of Nicaragua decreed at dawn of today alerts red in the Independent Region of the North Atlantic, alerts yellow (monitoring of the phenomenon) in the South Caribbean and alerts green (preventive) in the rest of the national territory.

The eye of "the potentially catastrophic" hurricane "Felix", with maximum winds of 260 kilometers per hour, today touched earth in the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, informed the National Center into Huracanes (CNH) of the U.S.A..

The meteorologists of the CNH, with seat in Miami, indicated that the vortex of "Felix" was located "closely together of Fat End", in the northeast of the country, and to about 16 kilometers of End Head, also in that country.

President Daniel Ortega said this dawn that the green alert was decreed for the rest of the national territory taking into account that "the extension of the phenomenon is so great that surely it will affect with rains Managua (capital of the country)".
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#1740 Postby MetSul Weather Center » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:15 pm

Latest from the press in Nicaragua. Five thousand homes destroyed (1.200 in Puerto Cabeza; 3.500 in Sandy Bay; 180 in Krukina and 125 in Cuabí.
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