Felix, a monster Cat 5 storm, makes landfall

[maseman]

Source: MSNBC/AP

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Hurricane Felix made landfall early Tuesday as a fearsome Category 5 storm _ the first time in recorded history that two top-scale storms have come ashore in the same season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras border, home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians dependent on canoes to make their way to safety.

Twenty fishermen were missing, and communication to the area was cut off.

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Felix's top winds were just under 155 mph as it headed west; after landfall along the Miskito Coast, it is projected to rake northern Honduras, slam into southern Belize on Wednesday and then cut across northern Guatemala and southern Mexico, well south of Texas.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20546847/

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Man these storms have been extremely powerful. The US has been very lucky so far this year.

[MuseRider]

1. OMG this is horrible for the islanders.

I doubt Binaca Town in Guanaja is still there. I hope they were all able to get to high ground. It looks like Roatan got evacuated OK. Thanks for this bit of news, I have been without TV and had little computer time for over a week now and had been wondering about Felix.

[maseman]

2. The worst part will be Belize

It is such a poor country and very mountainous. That means many shacks on hillsides that will affected by mudslides. I think it was hurricane Mitch a few years ago that killed numerous.

[Spinzonner]

3. Felix the Cat(egory) ?

Oh come on now ...

[ContraBass Black]

4. I admit, every time I read the name,

I picture an enraged Felix the Cat devouring the effected areas.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. No confirmed fatalities yet, but 2 fishing boats missing; Henriette in the Pacific has killed 7

Hurricane Felix has hit Nicaragua's north coast as a category-five storm, the highest level, but weakened to a category one as it moved over land.
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Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Henriette reached hurricane strength as it hit Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
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Henriette caused landslides in the Mexican city of Acapulco at the weekend that killed six people. One woman drowned in high surf in Cabo San Lucas on Monday.
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There have been no reports of any fatalities from Felix. However, local officials said two fishing ships carrying 35 crew had gone missing off Nicaragua.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6976114.stm