9/20/2023 0 Comments Iota news new york times![]() Here is our status update as of November 30, 2020Įveryone is Safe. We very much appreciate the concern and care and this blog post is our attempt to provide a family update while also sharing some of the things we have been seeing and learning from across the country. Since the situation is still evolving, we plan to update this page as we have more information. Since our family is in Honduras, many of you have been asking how they are doing. ![]() While destruction is particularly bad on the coasts, there is also massive flooding throughout the region. The eye of both storms hit first in Nicaragua only 15 miles apart and Iota is now considered the strongest storm to hit Nicaragua ever. On November 5th, Hurricane Eta hit Honduras and less than 2 weeks later Hurricane Iota crossed almost the same path arriving over Honduras on November 17th. And now another one is coming.2020 has been a dangerous and destructive Hurricane season and poor Central America has been especially hit hard. “They left their houses in the middle of the night, abandoned everything, got soaked, carried their children. “We are racing the storm in order to get supplies to these people, because now they can’t leave, they have nowhere to go,” said Sofía Letona, director of Antigua to the Rescue, a local aid group that has distributed food and medicine to hundreds of people displaced by Eta. ![]() ![]() Now, as Hurricane Iota bears down, teams of rescuers are rushing to reach towns left stranded by Hurricane Eta. Muss said the government had not even been able to gain entry to about 100 villages hit hard by Eta, and noted that about a quarter of those are in critical conditions “because of a lack of food, because of hunger, thirst, and illness.” “I don’t think we have begun to comprehend the impact of this crisis, in terms of the humanitarian disaster.” “If Iota hits with the strength they’re forecasting, it will be chaos,” said Francisco Muss, a retired Guatemalan army general who is coordinating rescue efforts. Entire villages have lost access to potable water, food and medicine, aid groups said. Guatemala is still digging out from Eta, which left hundreds of towns underwater and displaced close to 200,000. Scientists have found that climate change affects how hurricanes form and strengthen, and that rising ocean temperatures linked to global warming can lead storms to weaken more slowly and remain destructive for longer. “If we don’t want to see hordes of Central Americans looking to go to countries with a better quality of life, we have to create walls of prosperity in Central America.” “Hunger, poverty and destruction do not have years to wait,” said Alejandro Giammattei, the Guatemalan leader. Honduras and Guatemala were hammered by Hurricane Eta earlier this month, and both nations are expected to be hard hit by Hurricane Iota. Orlando called on the United Nations to declare Central America as the region most affected by climate change worldwide. “Central America is not the producer of this climate change situation,” the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, said at a news conference. The leaders of Honduras and Guatemala called Monday for an increase in international funding to combat the effects of climate change and to aid their recovery efforts amid recent natural disasters.
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