Streets were flooded in La Ceiba, Honduras.
September 4, 2007
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UNISYS Infrared Satellite GOES East
These storms exploded after reaching land nearly at the same time. There is a slight hint of a quasi-eye in the Carribean just northeast Honduras border with Nicaragua. There is also a storm building east of Florida. It will more than likely remain in the Atlantic. There is an odd little storm that formed in a few hours over Lake Okeechobee. Everyone on the North American continent upto the Rio Grande is drenched. Texas and the Mississippi states into the middle of the USA are experiencing rains. This dual system storm is gigantic and very, very dangerous.
Hurricane Felix Strikes Central America (click here)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sept. 4 — The hurricane of the moment, the one that smashed ashore in northern Nicaragua today and began inundating the Honduran countryside, was Felix. But it was an earlier storm, the devastating Hurricane Mitch of 1998, that continued to haunt Hondurans.
Merchants recalled Mitch as they packed up their belongings as Felix moved in and hustled to higher ground. Residents told horror stories about Mitch as they hoped and prayed that the new storm would not do what the last one did....
