Storm surf thundered against beaches and winds knocked out power to thousands of Bermudians on Monday as Tropical Storm Bertha swept over the island.
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/ 19 October 2007
Tropical Storm Kiko swirled along Mexico’s Pacific coast and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Saturday night, forecasters said on Friday. A tropical-storm watch was issued for western Mexico from Punta San Telmo to Cabo Corrientes. Kiko had maximum sustained winds of 65km/h early on Friday.
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/ 28 September 2007
Hurricane Lorenzo weakened into a tropical storm early on Friday after crashing into Mexico’s Gulf Coast, where it knocked out electricity, flooded roads and uprooted trees. Hundreds of people from low-lying communities were forced to seek higher ground.
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/ 4 September 2007
Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast as a record-setting category-five monster storm on Tuesday, whipping metal rooftops through the air like razors and forcing thousands to flee. Meanwhile, off Mexico’s Pacific coast, Hurricane Henriette bore down on upscale resort Cabo San Lucas.
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/ 4 September 2007
Tens of thousands of people hunkered in storm shelters on Tuesday as Hurricane Felix roared toward Central America, but transport shortages left many facing the storm’s whipping winds and rain in their homes. The category-four hurricane, due to make landfall around mid-morning, charged toward Honduras and Nicaragua with top sustained winds of 215km/h.
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/ 3 September 2007
Hurricane Felix, a potentially catastrophic storm with 260km/h winds, threatened on Monday to plow along the Caribbean coast of Honduras and dump torrential rain across Central America. Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize posted hurricane alerts.
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/ 3 September 2007
Hurricane Felix became an extremely dangerous category-five storm on Sunday as it swept through the southern Caribbean on a path toward Central America and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, United States forecasters said. On a similar — though more southerly — track to that of last month’s powerful Hurricane Dean, which killed 27 people, Felix’s top sustained winds were at 270km/h.
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/ 2 September 2007
Residents on Aruba stocked up on groceries, flashlights and plywood to board up windows and doors ahead of Hurricane Felix, which was forecast to pass just north of the Dutch Caribbean island on Sunday morning. Along the Pacific coast of Mexico, meanwhile, Tropical Storm Henriette moved out to sea after leaving six dead.