As much as 25 inches of rain was forecast in some remote areas. While Felix dissipated over western Honduras, at least five nations in Central America were on alert for floods. Even in the best of circumstances, transportation in the area depends more on canoes and small motorboats than roads. Many remote, coastal communities were still isolated and it was unknown how they weathered the storm, she said.
“We definitely need international help,” Nicaragua’s Health Secretary Maritza Cuan. Other patients included a 17-year-old who was trapped when part of her home’s roof collapsed as she tried to get her 14-month-old daughter out of the house. That force officials in the fishing town to set up a makeshift medical center in a university building, where doctors were trying to save a 12-year-old boy who was gravely injured by a falling tree. In Puerto Cabezas, the region’s main town near where Felix made landfall, the hospital was flooded. Nearly every building in the region was damaged or destroyed.įelix peeled roofs off shelters and knocked down electric poles in the region, which has about 60,000 residents and 12,000 homes, The dead included a man who drowned when his boat capsized, a woman killed when a tree fell on her house, and a girl who died shortly after being born because the storm prevented her from getting medical attention. It was expected to weaken over Mexico’s deserts and dump an inch or two of rain on southwest New Mexico Thursday or Friday.įelix destroyed about 5,000 homes when it slammed into Nicaragua’s remote Miskito Coast on Tuesday as a powerful Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds and pushed inland, dumping heavy rains.
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