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To: sea_urchin who wrote (8954)3/5/2000 10:20:00 AM
From: Alan Whirlwind  Read Replies (1) of 81205
 
I used to live in Guatemala and so received reports via e-mail of the disater there when Hurricane Mitch hit. The hurricane was one of the worst ever in the Western Carribean with sustaned winds of 175 miles per hour.

It did weaken before landfall in Honduras, but that turned out to be little consolation. It's slow movement meant more rain. Feet of rain. The worst possible movement pattern of the storm occurred when on Halloween day in 1998 it stalled on the Honduras/Guatemalan border, allowing feeder bands of moisture to be pulled from both the Carribean to the east and the Pacific to the west. Nicaragua and Guatemala now bore the brunt. In Nicaragua, the crater of a dormant volcano filled with water and then collapsed, killing thousands of people. Guatamala's flooding was also extensive.

But the worst was in Honduras where it never stopped raining until the tropical system finally drifted north towards the Yucatan Peninsula. Honduras lost 60% of its roadway infrastructure. Can you imagine any modern country suffering such a loss?

The change in the weather is indeed scary. But it was damn cold here in Wisconsin this past winter, so global warming has taken a sabbatical apparently. --Alan
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