November 6, 2009
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Posted: Nov. 6, 2009
Headlines: Nicaraguan coast walloped by storm (click title to entry - thank you)
COMPILED FROM REPORTS BY FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES
HURRICANE IDA: Nicaraguan coast walloped
Hurricane Ida ripped into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and and later becoming a tropical depression.
Ida, clocking 75-m.p.h. winds, struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni, about 60 miles northeast of Bluefields, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
About 80% of homes were destroyed in nearby Karawala, a fishing village of about 100 shacks, Nicaraguan officials said. No deaths or injuries have been reported....
