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Last edited Mon Nov 16, 2020, 01:13 PM - Edit history (2)
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)EnterwebsJohn
(87 posts)rode a horse into the forest _ i came upon a clearing of 6 grass shacks where people were living. All the men carried machetes but were not threatening even tho I was a bit alarmed being a 19 yr old teen.
The more modern shacks used kerosene lanterns at night for lighting. Im sure its changed today but I wondered then what it would be like to live that life. Hop[pe they make out OK with iOTA.
Even a rain storm cauused mud slides on the mountainsides washing out and blocking a paved road to San Pedro Sula on the coast.
/EDited for typo/
panader0
(25,816 posts)What were you doing in 1970 in Honduras? I got to Belize a few years later, looking for property.
malaise
(268,660 posts)In its official report on Lenny, the National Hurricane Center said this long west-to-east track through the Caribbean was unprecedented in the 113-year Atlantic basin tropical cyclone record.
Unfortunately, one of those jogs in the path took Lenny directly into the northern Lesser Antilles Nov. 17 at its peak intensity of 155 miles per hour, a high-end Category 4 storm. While those maximum winds occurred over water, the storm still battered the Virgin Islands, including a 112-mph gust on St. Croix.
Damaging winds also struck Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Maarten/St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Saba, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Storm surge and damaging waves affected many of these areas as well. Fortunately, Lenny weakened significantly during its slow push through the islands, diminishing to tropical storm status before moving east of the Antilles.
In all, 17 people died as a direct result of Lenny, which did an estimated $330 million in damage in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands alone.
EnterwebsJohn
(87 posts)law. He was working for Texaco at their San Pedro Sula site. It was a very small facility to off load and load tankers for their shipping lines.
I met some interesting people. Met A millionaire who had worked for a sulfur mine that was owned by a british company but had shut down. Honduran government offered him part interest in the mine if he helped them get it up and running making him a millionaire aftyer his retirement. he was originally from England.Interesting trip.
malaise
(268,660 posts)Welcome to DU.
Just imagine what 155mph winds and rain will do. The only good news is that it has picked up speed and isnow moving at 10mph. Still very few dwellings survive 155mph.
ornotna
(10,791 posts)malaise
(268,660 posts)That get out of the way or die strength
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)malaise
(268,660 posts)in the season. This was 90mph when I went to bed last night.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)malaise
(268,660 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)It was also so destructive that the name Lenny was replaced with Lee. Who knew.
malaise
(268,660 posts)Sandy formed below us in late October and terrorized several people in several countries right into November/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)tornado on Christmas Day in my home town. It was devastating.
https://www.weather.gov/mob/2012_Dec25_Tornado_Mobile
malaise
(268,660 posts)Last one was 1932
Get out of the way folks
marmar
(77,049 posts)malaise
(268,660 posts)moved from 90mph last night to 145 and now 155
ornotna
(10,791 posts)The western eyewall is over Nicaragua.
malaise
(268,660 posts)No one has a chance here
ornotna
(10,791 posts)That is a killer storm.