Thousands flee Hurricane Felix in Central America
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Tens of thousands of people fled low-lying areas on Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the powerful winds and torrential rains of approaching Hurricane Felix.
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Hurricane Felix weakened on Monday to a still-powerful Category 4 storm as it headed toward the northern coast of Honduras in the Caribbean, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The highly dangerous Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, smashing up a port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast and threatening deadly mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala.
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Hurricane Frances forced hundreds of people to flee across the Caribbean after ripping through the British territory of Turks and Caicos, and the Bahamas' prime minister warned that the mighty storm headed his way could be the worst in the archipelago nation's history.
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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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Doctors threw together a makeshift clinic Wednesday to tend to the injured after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. Remnants of the storm drenched Central America in rain and the death toll rose to nine, with at least 11 people missing.
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Tens of thousands of people from a 300-mile swath of the Gulf Coast fled Hurricane Ivan and winds of 140 miles per hour.
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Tropical Storm Felix threatened to trigger floods and mudslides in Honduras on Wednesday after the once monstrous hurricane killed four people in Nicaragua.
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Hurricane Henriette threatened Mexico's mainland Wednesday after punishing the Los Cabos resorts, while far to the south, the weakening remnants of Hurricane Felix dumped heavy rain over Central America, forcing thousands to flee.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras  - Rains from Hurricane Felix soaked the hill country of Honduras on Wednesday and threatened to trigger dangerous mudslides and flooding after killing four people in neighboring Nicaragua.
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Desperate families searched through the early morning hours Thursday for scores of missing Nicaraguans on the Caribbean coast where Hurricane Felix blew away villages, flooded rivers and killed at least 18 people.
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Residents of poor coastal communities of Nicaragua picked through the wreckages of their homes on Wednesday in the wake of Hurricane Felix.
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Hurricane Felix, a potentially devastating storm, barreled toward Honduras where tens of thousands of people prepared to evacuate on Monday in fear of a repeat of a deadly 1998 hurricane.
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WILLEMSTAD, Curacao  - Gusty winds knocked down trees and stinging rain flooded streets in the Netherlands Antilles on Sunday as Hurricane Felix passed north of the Dutch Caribbean islands, intensifying rapidly over warm waters.
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Hurricane Felix made landfall as a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm in extreme northeastern Nicaragua, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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At least 65 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua and Honduras, officials say.
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Hurricane warnings were posted for coastal Honduras as a "potentially catastrophic" Hurricane Felix, a top-ranked storm with 165 mile-per-hour (270 km per hour) winds, threatened Central America on Monday.