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panamajames
  11/16/2020 23:28 EST

Live outside during Hurricane Iota insane Category 5 winds have reached 200 mph!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvl_OTumk0


Fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota intensified into an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm as it swept over the western Caribbean. The storm was approaching the same part of Central America battered by Hurricane Eta just over a week ago.

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* CAM exterior EN VIVO * Huracán Iota Categoría 5 VIENTOS A TIERRA 200 MPH
Viva al aire libre durante el huracán Iota ¡Los vientos locos de categoría 5 han alcanzado las 200 mph!

El huracán Iota, que se fortalecía rápidamente, se intensificó y se convirtió en una tormenta de categoría 5 extremadamente peligrosa cuando azotó el Caribe occidental. La tormenta se acercaba a la misma parte de Centroamérica azotada por el huracán Eta hace poco más de una semana

panamajames
  11/17/2020 13:19 EST

Hurricane Iota barreled into Central America, still recovering from Eta on Tuesday, bringing with it life-threatening flooding, catastrophic winds and mudslides.

Swells from the storm will be felt from Central America to the Yucatán Peninsula, as far east as Jamaica and as far south as Colombia. Its landfall was just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta struck, potentially leaving the region scarred for generations.

Iota reached Category 5 strength and made landfall near the town of Haulover, Nicaragua, at 10:40 p.m. ET last night as a Category 4, with maximum sustained winds near 155 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. It weakened significantly upon making landfall.

Hurricane Iota is expected to weaken to a tropical storm by Tuesday afternoon, the national hurricane center said.

Here’s what you need to know:
Colombia reports first casualty of storm. Iota weakens, but risk of landslides and flooding remains high.
In Nicaragua, relief that the hurricane weakened gives way to sorrow.
The storm is hitting a region still reeling from Hurricane Eta.
Iota leaves flooding behind in Colombia. The storm complicates efforts to combat the coronavirus.
As Iota moves inland, communities scramble to prepare.

At least one person was killed on the Colombian island of Providencia overnight, when Hurricane Iota struck the area as a catastrophic Category 5 before weakening when it made landfall in Nicaragua.

President Iván Duque of Colombia said the island had sustained severe material damage that affected 98 percent of its infrastructure. Mr. Duque arrived at the nearby island of San Andrés on Tuesday morning after flying over Providencia to assess the damage.

“Today Colombia is united to address this calamity,” Mr. Duque said at a news conference in Cartagena on Monday night. “Never in the history of our country have we faced a Category 5 hurricane.”

Mr. Duque also said ships from the Colombian navy were anchored off the coast of Providencia and waiting for weather conditions to improve to deliver aid to the island.

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panamajames
  11/20/2020 01:10 EST

Iota rather fizzled out as far as Panama was concerned. Nicaragua and Honduras suffered the bulk of the damage. In Chiriqui Province I did not notice a thing out of the ordinary and because Eta had caused us so much rain and spongy ground, we were quite happy about that. 200 dead during Eta and 41 during Iota, one of those deaths in Panama, more or less tells the differences in the storms.

"Hurricane Iota leaves 41 dead in Central America; 4.6 million affected."

The Central American countries on Thursday made a recount of the devastation caused by the passage of cyclone Iota, the second to hit the region this month, which left at least 41 dead in landslides and floods.
Iota hit the North Caribbean of Nicaragua on Monday as a category five hurricane, the maximum power, two weeks after Cyclone Eta hit the same area, leaving at least 200 dead and 2.5 million affected.

The initial balances show 41 deaths caused by Iota : 18 of them in Nicaragua, 14 in Honduras, five in Guatemala, two in the Colombian archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, one in Panama and another in El Salvador.

Around 4.6 million people were affected in Central America, including 1.8 million children, according to initial estimates from the UN Children's Fund (Unicef).

Bilwi, the main city in the North Caribbean of Nicaragua, remained isolated, without water or electricity, and food was starting to run short, according to an AFP team in the area.

The rescue units resumed Thursday the search for bodies buried on Tuesday after a landslide in the mountains of Peñas de Blanca, in the Nicaraguan department of Matagalpa (north), where recognized until the ninth time dead, including six children.

To come here and find my daughter and my wife dead. She was my only girl, the father of the minor, Orlando Navarrete, said in tears to a local media.

According to the government, Iota left "catastrophic" damage to the infrastructure of the country, one of the poorest in the region.

Some 250 municipal brigades launched this Thursday to collect debris and fallen trees throughout Nicaragua, with the help of more than 450 equipment and machinery such as trucks, backhoes and dump trucks.

In Honduras, where at least 14 people died from landslides in the western department of Lempira, authorities continued the search for other possible deaths on Thursday, according to civil protection.

The northern Sula Valley, the most productive area in Honduras, was flooded, but this Thursday the water level began to drop, covering houses and the San Pedro Sula airport.

The downpours caused the mighty Ulúa and Chamelecón rivers to overflow, which turned the Sula valley into an immense lagoon.

In Guatemala, President Alejandro Giammattei met with his cabinet to assess the situation in the country, where several communities were flooded and the rains destroyed bridges and roads.

According to Guatemalan civil protection , Iota left five dead, three missing, 3,558 people sheltered, 2,683 houses damaged and numerous bridges and roads affected.

Even in El Salvador, little hit by the two cyclones, 15 communities were without electricity and there was damage to the water service of nine communities. The landslides also blocked seven highways, according to Presidential Commissioner Carolina Recinos.

Central American governments this week called for international aid to deal with the devastation of the cyclones, and in response, the European Union announced that it will allocate $ 10.7 million to Nicaragua from a multi-donor trust fund.

Likewise, the US agency for international cooperation announced a support of 17 million dollars for the region.

Unicef also made an urgent appeal to raise 42.6 million dollars to cover the humanitarian needs of the region.

For its part, the Red Cross announced that this Friday it will begin to move a field hospital, water treatment plants and hygiene supplies to Honduras to serve 50,000 people.

gSky
  11/20/2020 18:24 EST

IS COVID NOT ENOUGH????? Those poor souls!

Let this f*******g year 2020 finally be OVER!!!!

These are the few moments, where I am sorry to be an agnostic! There is no one to be angry at other than ourselves for our megalomania believing we have control over everything.

Isn't it time for some humbleness to realize that we act out of greed or laziness destroying our environment without understanding the long term consequences coming back to haunt us through a butterfly (or more a T-Rex) effect?

Should we, for example, really start drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) without bothering to consider the consequences that this act will have? Just to get more oil to burn changing the global climate even more?

stgibson
  11/20/2020 19:36 EST

Gsky
Well said but you need to research both opinions better first as we have discussed this before. Did you actually check the stastics on carbon contribution I sent you?

gSky
  11/21/2020 07:10 EST

stgibson: I did not have an email or PM from you about stats.

Did you send it within a post?

4 days until we leave

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ROKSlide
  11/21/2020 09:22 EST

stgibson -- Please post your statistics. I am planing to write a series of articles on climate and would be interested on the information that you have.

stgibson
  11/21/2020 11:19 EST

Whatsapp Have a good trip. I hope it all goes smoothly for you and your dogs.

stgibson
  11/21/2020 11:42 EST

Rokside
Some food for thought. You say you are an environmentalist and I can appreciate that as I am also. However I do my own research as opposed to listening to the media BS. I have a problem with your Chinese manufactured electric car environmentally. #1 it is manufactured in China which is by far the greatest carbon polluter on the planet. #2 It runs on Lithium-Ion batteries the environmental cost of mining and refining lithium has great environmental impact not to mention what will happen when millions of tons of expended Lithium batteries begin piling up. Already a problem with cell phone batteries. #3 an average electric car uses 5100kw of generated electric power to drive 15,000 miles per year. The average carbon footprint of generating 1kw is 1kg co2. So an electric car driving 15,000 miles per year adds 5100kg of Co2/15,000 miles to the atmosphere.
I have a 2.8L mitsubihi turbo diesel that averages 35miles/gal. of low Sulphur diesel. To drive 15,000 miles per year it requires 429 gal. of low Sulphur diesel. Low Sulphur diesel emits 10.58kg/gal. Co2. So my annual Co2 emissions for 15,000 miles 4540kg Co2/15,000 miles. As an environmentalist, rather than electric, I think of biomass produced alcohol which has a zero carbon impact on the environment. With steam powered efficient piston engines with heat produced by biomass alcohol. After all the Stanley Steamer set the world land speed record in 1907 with a steam piston engine.

gSky
  11/21/2020 14:10 EST

stgibson
Your CO2 Emission per KW is correct in the US, Canada and EU, but flawed in the tropics since you can charge your car mostly solar. One set of batteries is charged while you use the other set and you change them as you use them. At least in some regions. I saw some people living close to a creek powering a significant part of their daily electricity with water wheels

First I will need to arrive which for a change is not sure anymore.

Then I will adjust and bring one in and test them (I drove Hybrids since >20 years and a plugin for the last 7 years.

The 'Perfect' is the enemy of the 'Good'.

I settle for the good and hope that many others like me buying the good will motivate the industry to develop 'The Better'.


See also:

The Next Generation of Solar Energy | Perovskite Solar Cells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJsaQQkOlM4

ROKSlide
  11/21/2020 16:34 EST

stgibson _ You have made some completely erroneous suppositions regarding me. Why did you make those assumptions. I thought the maybe you would have some useful information, but now believe it will be tarnished.

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gSky
  11/21/2020 16:44 EST

ROKSlide:
I believe stgibson meant me with what he wrote about the environmental impact of e-cars.. I am the treehugger wanting to bring ecars into Panama.

stgibson
  11/21/2020 17:09 EST

ROKslide,
That was a message to Gsky I copied and pasted from several months ago. That was not meant at you. I was simply passing on the research on the carbon footprint by electric vehicles compared to the diesel truck I drive.

ROKSlide
  11/21/2020 17:24 EST

stgibson -- Fair enough. Info: I participated in the International Geophysical Year (1957-58) {Yes, like many government programs, they last longer than promised], where I measured the deformation of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica "downstream" of Roosevelt Is., a very deformed area with thousands of crevasses and hundreds of anticlines (folds). Several of my colleagues were involved with ice coring to determine past climate. I have followed their work and others on the subject for the last 60+ years and was going to share insights into the subject with this forum.

stgibson
  11/21/2020 20:10 EST

That is something I would love to see! Ice core samples are us begining to understand where we are and who we are.

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