Category 4 Hurricane Eta is battering Nicaragua as it makes 'catastrophic' landfall

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Category 4 Hurricane Eta pummeled northeastern Nicaragua as it made landfall on Tuesday afternoon, ahead of what could be days of flooding in parts of Central America, the US National Hurricane Center said.


The "extremely dangerous" hurricane was making landfall just south of the city of Puerto Cabezas, on Nicaragua's Caribbean shore, with "life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds, and flash flooding occurring over portions of Central America," the NHC said in a mid-afternoon advisory.
The storm had maximum sustained winds near 140 mph, the NHC said.


"Catastrophic wind damage" is expected where the hurricane's eyewall passes, according to the NHC.
Storm bands already were pulling roofs off houses and knocking down trees Tuesday morning in Puerto Cabezas, a city in one of Nicaragua's poorest regions, Reuters reported. The news outlet cited Guillermo Gonzalez, the chief of the nation's disaster management agency.


"We're really afraid. There are fallen poles, there's flooding, roofs torn off," said Puerto Cabezas resident Carmen Enriquez, according to Reuters.
To the north, homes also were being flooded in Lancetilla, Honduras, amid heavy rains, pictures distributed by Getty Images show.
A hurricane warning was in effect for a roughly 150-mile stretch of Nicaraguan coastline, from the Honduras/Nicaragua border south to Sandy Bay Sirpi on east-central Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.
 
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Dangerous storm surge of up to 21 feet above normal tide also could crash onshore in parts of Nicaragua, Central America's poorest nation, the NHC said.
The storm could deliver life-threatening conditions in Nicaragua and other Central American nations for days, including nearly 3 feet of rain in isolated parts of Nicaragua and Honduras through this week, the NHC said.
Strong winds blow onshore in Tela, Honduras, on Tuesday.


Strong winds blow onshore in Tela, Honduras, on Tuesday.
"This rainfall will lead to catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding, along with landslides in areas of higher terrain of Central America," the NHC said.
Almost half a million children are among the more than 1.2 million people who could be affected by the storm, according to UNICEF, which has put emergency supplies in place and developed a plan to respond to the needs of children and families, according to a statement from the agency.

The current forecast has the storm meandering the mountains of Nicaragua and Honduras before heading north toward Belize as a depression by Friday. The track and intensity of the storm remains uncertain after Friday.
Honduras is no longer under a hurricane warning, but remains under a tropical storm warning, the NHC said Tuesday afternoon.
The storm has the potential to be one of the worst flooding events Nicaragua has seen since Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed more than 10,000 people.
Women walk next to fallen trees Tuesday morning in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, after winds from Hurricane Eta raked the area.


Women walk next to fallen trees Tuesday morning in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, after winds from Hurricane Eta raked the area.
Torrential rain expected across Central America
Torrential rain, and resulting flooding and landslides, are expected to be among the main threats. The wind and storm surge threat should diminish throughout Tuesday, but the rain will last well into the week.
In Honduras, villagers of Bordo del Lancetilla repair their houses Tuesday after the Lancetilla River flooded during heavy rains from Hurricane Eta.


In Honduras, villagers of Bordo del Lancetilla repair their houses Tuesday after the Lancetilla River flooded during heavy rains from Hurricane Eta.
Rain forecasts through Sunday morning, according to the NHC:
• Much of Nicaragua and Honduras: Generally 15-25 inches, with isolated amounts up to 35 inches.
• Eastern Guatemala and Belize: Generally 10-20 inches, with isolated amounts up to 25 inches.
• Parts of Panama and Costa Rica: Generally 10-15 inches, with isolated amounts up to 25 inches.
• El Salvador and southeastern Mexico: Generally 5-10 inches, with isolated amounts up to 15 inches.
• Jamaica, southern Haiti, and the Cayman Islands: Generally 3-5 additional inches, with isolated storm totals over 15 inches.
Eta is forecast to move over the Caribbean later in the week and could be over Cuba by Sunday and could threaten South Florida, the NHC said.
The slow-moving and rapidly intensifying storm -- its sustained wind speed more than doubled over the Caribbean from Sunday evening to Monday evening -- is the latest in an active Atlantic hurricane season.
As the 28th named storm in the Atlantic this season, it ties the record for the number of named storms in a single season set back in 2005.
 
Central America stay getting bombarded by it. Crazy
 
#1hiphopjunki3 said:
Lousiana has had a rough year with that shit... the last 3 months has been rough for that state
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True. Surprisingly. Florida is usually the battering ground on the continent. Louisiana this time around
 
Yea, you’re right.
Colombia got piece of the Cat 5

 
Save the women
 
The same places this hurricane season keep getting hit over and over. This is some sad stuff.
 
Colombia has never had a cat 5 hurricane We ready to discuss climate change and how warmer seas are causing this?
 
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Landslide on the border or Honduras ?? & Nicaragua ??.
 
I’m in Cancun right now and today was windy as hell. Resort didn’t bother putting out no beach chairs cause tide is high. I’m only getting the residue but man then ppl in Nicaragua I hope can battle through
 
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