Long-term forecasts show that Eta is turning central America and then reforming in the Caribbean, achieving Cuba on Sunday and the Florida Keys on Monday.
HURRICANE ETA REACHES NICARAGUA IN CATEGORY 4, ‘EXTREMELY DANGEROUS’ STORM
Eta is located on Wednesday morning two hundred kilometers northeast of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.
Eta landed on Tuesday afternoon south of Bilwi after staying stagnant off the coast for hours. The city of about 60,000 people had been powerless since Monday night. dominion were in shelters.
Inland, about 100 miles west of where Eta made landfall, two gold miners died when a mountain released tons of dust on Tuesday morning. A third miner escaped from the slide and asked for help.
A painting uncovered before rescuers had to suspend recovery efforts due to dusk and it was feared that additional landslides would occur as the rain continued, Bonanza Fire Department Lieutenant Cesar Malespin said. Bonanza hit strong winds and torrential rains, he said.
The typhoon has also flooded neighboring Honduras with rain since at least Sunday, and the country reported on Tuesday of its first typhoon-related death. A 12-year-old woman died on a landslide in San Pedro Sula, the most important population center in northern Honduras. Marvin Aparicio of Honduras’ emergency control agency said.
In Honduras, at least 559 other people had to move to shelters or family homes to escape the floods, he said. At least 25 other people were rescued. His firm reported that at least six rivers were causing major flooding.
HURRICANE ETA RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES IN MAJOR STORM, WILL BE CATEGORY BY WATERFALL
Meteorologists said central and northern Nicaragua and much of Honduras can get just 15 to 25 inches of rain, adding 35 inches in remote areas. Heavy rains were also likely in southern Guatemala, southern Belize and Jamaica.
The expected amount of rain is compared to Hurricane Mitch in 1998, one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes in history. The U. S. National Hurricane Center has been in the middle of the world. But it’s not the first time He said Mitch killed more than 9,000 people.
The remote northeast of Nicaragua, where Eta took land, was already far away before the storm. Crossing the wide Wawa River to succeed in Bilwi, the most important city in the area, requires taking a ferry, which had suspended operations in the storm technique, so it is highly unlikely that it will drive to the area that has an effect.
Cairo Jarquin, Nicaragua’s Emergency Response Project Manager for Catholic Relief Services, said the immediate fear in northeastern Nicaragua after the typhoon would be to supply food and water to those remote communities.
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The majority of the region’s population is miskitos, who live on subsistence agriculture or fishing, Jarquin said; most of their homes are undeniable wooden structures concentrated in riverside communities that have suffered serious damage; they have hand-dug wells for drinking water, which he says would become infected through flooding.
As the typhoon moved west towards the mountains of Nicaragua and the border with Honduras, it was feared that this could have a devastating effect on the country’s coffee harvest, a key export, just as the harvest should begin.
Eta has already led Honduras to cancel a long weekend that was due to begin on Wednesday, the extra-long weekend that sought to bring tourism to life and help the economy strangled by the coronavirus pandemic, but promised to bring several more rainy days to Honduras. the area.
In the Pacific, Tropical Storm Odalys continued across the ocean and poseed no risk to the land.
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