Hurricane Mitchdefeats countries of Central America
Crops flattened,power linesdestroyed, floodsproduced causedsevere damage onbuildings and roadlinks. Central Americawill never be thesame again.The disasters began inHonduras, when thestorm whichoriginated in theCaribbean Sea arrivedat its mainland. Theentire thing startedwhen the surfacewater reached 27degrees Celsius of theCaribbean. The airbegan to rise due toits heat, creating alow pressure. Airrushes in to the lowpressure to take theplace of the movingair, creating verystrong winds. Theconvection led tointense rainfall andthe whole systemstarted to move west.As it passed overwarmer water, the airshot up even fasterand the pressurebecame even lower.When the stormswinds reached120kph, it became ahurricane and wasnamed HurricaneMitch. Althoughexperts could track itusing satellites, radarand weather stations,it kept changingdirection and speedunexpectedly withoutwarning. Belize wasnot affected butmany people decidedto evacuate. It wasthe opposite story inNicaragua, and manypeople were died.Many were saved incoastal Honduras, asalmost everyone gottold to evacuate. Yetit could not stop thepotential disastersHouses weredestroyed, leavingtwo million peoplehomeless, more than24,000 people dead,drowned or leftstranded and harvestsruined with farmproducts being themain exports.Instantly,neighbouringcountries andcharities such asOxfam and Red Crossprovided aid andpossible consolationto the alreadydestructiveconsequences of Honduras, El
Track of the Tropical Storm
Salvador, Guatemalaand Mexico.Emergency supplieswere activated.Clothing, blankets,food were needed; sowere waterpurification kits andmedicines to preventspread of disease. Avery long term
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