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Hurricane Iota brings more pain
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In a one-two punch, Hurricane Iota roared ashore as a dangerous Category-4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of Nicaragua鈥檚 Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful Hurricane Eta 13 days earlier.
Iota had intensified into an extremely dangerous Category-5 storm on Monday, but the US National Hurricane Center said it weakened slightly as it neared the coast late on Monday and made landfall with maximum sustained winds of 250 kilometers per hour.
It hit the coast about 45 kilometers south of the Nicaraguan city of Puerto Cabezas, also known as Bilwi.
People hunkered down in Bilwi, already battered by screeching winds and torrential rains.
Iota came ashore just 25 kilomters south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall on November 3. Eta鈥檚 rains saturated the soil in the region, leaving it prone to new landslides and floods.
鈥淭he situation is exacerbated by the fact that Iota is making landfall in almost the exact same place category-4 Hurricane Eta did a little less than two weeks ago,鈥 the Hurricane Center said.
鈥淭his hurricane is definitely worse鈥 than Eta, Jason Berm煤dez, a university student from Bilwi.
鈥淭here are already a lot of houses that lost their roofs, fences and fruit trees that got knocked down,鈥 said Berm煤dez. 鈥淲e will never forget this year.鈥
Forecasters warned Iota鈥檚 storm surge could reach 4.5 to 6 meters and as the storm approached that threat weighed heavily on Yasmina Wriedt in Bilwi鈥檚 seaside El Muelle neighborhood.
鈥淭he situation doesn鈥檛 look good at all,鈥 Wriedt said.
鈥淲e woke up without electricity, with rain and the surf is getting really high.鈥
Wriedt said Eta pushed the surf up to just behind her house, where she lives with eight other members of her family. 鈥淭oday I鈥檓 afraid again about losing my house and I鈥檓 frightened for all of us who live in this neighborhood.鈥
Iota is the record 30th named storm of this year鈥檚 super busy Atlantic hurricane season.
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