hurricane iota

A Honduran town was hammered by two consecutive hurricanes and then obliterated by a mudslide. That’s when the Rev. Leopoldo Serrano arrived in his Franciscan robes like an answer to the townspeople’s prayers, ready to take charge — and ready, it would turn out, to make a deal with the devil to save the people of La Reina.

The hurricane was the second one to strike the country’s Caribbean coast in just two weeks.

The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota is becoming clear as communications are restored after the second Category 4 hurricane in two weeks to blast Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.

Hurricane Iota is tearing across Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf

Hurricane Iota made landfall on Monday night in Nicaragua. Iota is the 30th named storm of the 2020 hurricane season.

Powerful Hurricane Iota has made landfall on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, threatening catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by equally strong Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago

Iota became the thirteenth hurricane of the Atlantic season early Sunday, threatening to bring another dangerous system to Nicaragua and Honduras — countries recently clobbered by a Category 4 Hurricane Eta. Iota was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. Such activity has focused attention on climate change, which scientists…