With the memory of Hurricane Dean still fresh, central Mexico was again hit, this time by Hurricane Felix, another Category 5 storm that struck early Tuesday in Nicaragua. Felix's landfall, in the wake of Dean, marked the first time in recorded history that two category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the same season.
Mexico was hit on both coasts this week, with Felix on the Atlantic side and Hurricane Henriette on the Pacific coast. Henriette came ashore near Cabo San Lucas, also on Tuesday with 80 mph winds. With Felix and Henriette both making landfall on Tuesday, it marked the first time that two hurricanes have made landfall on the same day. NOAA has released a satellite image showing both Felix and Henriette. Felix is still clearly a big storm in the picture, with its rotation visible. Henriette seems weak by comparison, without the clear rotation of Felix, but it still was strong enough to do damage to the west coast of Mexico.
As both storms run their course, rescue and aid operations are underway to help those caught in the path. (see story on this from Miami Herald). The vast majority of those affected are impoverished indigenous people living in the remote areas of the Nicaragua-Honduras border. Continuing rain and the threat of future flooding are making the work more difficult. They need all the help they can get. If you would like to help, the Red Cross is a good place to start. Go to their website (redcross.org) and give what you can, please.While you are at it, don't forget to help yourself, too. If you have not yet made your own personal hurricane preparedness plan, it's still not too late. We here in Florida have been lucky so far this year. Will our luck hold? I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that it won't. Both Dean and Felix took southerly paths; what are the chances that will happen with the next one? Good luck is a funny thing: you'd like to get it, but you'd better not plan on it.
Regards,
Stormy
1 comments:
Has anyone put any thought into preparing for a hurricane without any air support? Think about it. Look at the New York area The NY TRACON is in Westbury and the ARTCC is in Ronkonkoma. They are about 35 miles apart. If one gets hit with a disaster what are the chances that the other will still be there and operational?
Most likely the radars and the phone lines plus the antennas and dishes will not be there. When the FAA did this I don't think they were thinking about any kind of disaster plan. I don't think that there is a government plan that tells you to put 2 vital systems only 35 miles apart. But this is happening all over the U.S.
If you think this is silly then you will love what I have to tell you about South Florida. They are putting the same to vital radar systems only 1.5 nautical miles apart. I would really like to see the government plan that tells them to endanger lives and the economy of an area. I have all the official paper work on this website. www.faahope.com I will fight this to try and save the people and businesses of South Florida. I have an open case in the Office Of the Inspector General’s in the Department Of Transportation since Jan 2007. I’m not giving up without a fight.
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