Hurricane Beta is beating down on Nicaragua and some meteorologists are predicting a worse case scenario could leave 25 inches of rain in the country. Can you even imagine that level of rain and flooding? Nicaragua could take an upper mid center hit from the eye wall landfall of a Category II or III Hurricane Beta as it strikes the shore. What is most alarming is that Nicaragua has some huge mountains, which are 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the ground meaning the remnants of Beta as it winds back down could stay and circulate bringing even more rain for weeks, especially if other tropical storms fill up the Caribbean. We know from watching these tropical storms and Hurricanes that the biggest killer is not the winds themselves but the shear size and precipitation from the storms, as they cause flooding drowning their victims. Hurricane Wilma dropped lots of water on the already water logged and saturated country not more than 7 days ago and now Hurricane Beta will deluge the country to the point of flooding out all areas on the Western shores and up into the mountains. There will be huge mudslides and many deaths from Hurricane Beta and it could be a bigger killer than even Hurricane Stan, whose remnants flooded out and killed 3500 people. Burying whole villages in mudslides, which were later deemed mass graves and cemeteries, rather than trying to dig out all the bodies. Hurricane Beta is a deadly and dangerous storm, which will devastate and destroy in the next week. Think on this. |
