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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Powerful Felix hits Central American coast
2007-09-05
Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua's Miskito Coast as a record-setting Category 5 monster storm Tuesday, whipping metal rooftops through the air like razors and forcing thousands to flee. "The winds are horrible," Red Cross official Claudio Vanegas said by phone from the Nicaraguan town of Puerto Cabezas shortly after Felix struck land nearby with winds of 260 kph (160 mph). "They send roofs flying through the air, so we aren't going outside because it is too dangerous."

Meanwhile, off Mexico's Pacific coast, Hurricane Henriette bore down on upscale Cabo San Lucas, a resort popular with Hollywood stars and sports fishermen. The US National Hurricane Center said it had winds of 120 kph (75 mph) and that the center would likely hit land Tuesday afternoon.
Posted by:Fred

#4  "We aren't going outside" > hope many are staying in some kind of concrete shelter(s) lest the outside comes inside to them.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-09-05 20:16  

#3  
Felix struck land nearby with winds of 260 kph (160 mph). "They send roofs flying through the air, so we aren't going outside because it is too dangerous."
Guess what, Delbert - 160mph winds are too dangerous to go outside in even without roofs flying around.

Yeesh.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-09-05 19:23  

#2  This thing spun up more like an oversized tornado than a hurricane - real fast growth time and real compact core. Devastating, but not over the kind of area trashed by an Andrew, Rita or Katrina.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-09-05 18:43  

#1  Dzerjinski?
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-09-05 06:18  

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