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/ 4 September 2007

Central America braces for powerful Hurricane Felix

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 becomes rare top-ranked storm

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

Aruba braces for Hurricane Felix

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.