Hurricane Iota bashes Nicaragua, Honduras after Eta floods
Category 4 Iota hampered communications in Nicaragua and Honduras, cutting off contact with regions already devastated by Hurricane Eta.
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People watch the rising waters of the Rio Bermejo in the wake of Hurricane Iota in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Tuesday. Hurricane Iota tore across Nicaragua on Tuesday, hours after roaring ashore as a Category 4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was recently devastated by an equally powerful hurricane. [ DELMER MARTINEZ | AP ]
Published Nov. 18, 2020
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) â Hurricane Iota battered Nicaraguaâs Caribbean coast and flooded some stretches of neighboring Honduras that were still under water from Hurricane Eta two weeks earlier, leaving authorities struggling to assess damage after communications were knocked out in some areas.