Folks in Central America I hope you've found somewhere safe - here comes 160mph Iota

[malaise]

Last edited Mon Nov 16, 2020, 01:13 PM - Edit history (2)

[Lucinda]

1. Oh my.... ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[EnterwebsJohn]

2. I was in Honduras in 1970 and

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]

3. Welcome to DU.

What were you doing in 1970 in Honduras? I got to Belize a few years later, looking for property.

[malaise]

10. Lenny (1999) was also 155mph - what made it so different it that it moved from West to East

https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2018-11-02-five-unforgettable-november-hurricanes


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]

17. I went down to visit and meet my future father in

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]

5. Wow!

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]

4. 155 MPH now. n/t

[malaise]

6. Frightening

That get out of the way or die strength

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. It is one of the most formidable storms I've seen in awhile.

[malaise]

8. I'm going to check whether it's the strongest this late

in the season. This was 90mph when I went to bed last night.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. There is a good chance of that Malaise

[malaise]

11. Lenny (1999) was also 155mph

https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2018-11-02-five-unforgettable-november-hurricanes

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. That was one strange track that Lenny took...

It was also so destructive that the name Lenny was replaced with Lee. Who knew.

[malaise]

13. That was an unbelievable track

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]

14. The only stranger thing I've experienced than a hurricane in November was a

tornado on Christmas Day in my home town. It was devastating.

https://www.weather.gov/mob/2012_Dec25_Tornado_Mobile

[malaise]

18. Now Cat 5 - second November one in recorded history

Last one was 1932

Get out of the way folks

[marmar]

15. 145 mph? .... Every tropical system seems to overperform these days.

[malaise]

16. Updated - it's now 155mph

moved from 90mph last night to 145 and now 155

[ornotna]

19. Updated - 160 mph sustained winds. Cat 5

The western eyewall is over Nicaragua.

[malaise]

20. Hope everyone evacuated

No one has a chance here

[ornotna]

21. Yes indeed, hopefully everyone got out

That is a killer storm.