Tourists fled as Hurricane Felix, with winds of up to 145mph (230km/h), barrelled towards the popular diving resorts of the Bay Islands and the sparsely populated lowlands along the northern coast of Honduras.
The storm strengthened rapidly on Sunday to become the second Category 5 of the 2007 season, after Hurricane Dean, which also reached the top category as it killed at least 28 people in the Caribbean and Mexico last month. Yesterday Felix weakened slightly and was downgraded to Category 4, but experts said that it remained extremely dangerous and could regain strength. Telephones and power were out in much of the region, making it difficult to find out what was happening as the storm's winds began hitting the remote, swampy area, much of which is reachable only by canoe. Dean, the first storm of the Atlantic season, killed 27 people in the Caribbean and Mexico last month. Only 31 such storms have been recorded in the Atlantic, eight of them in the last five years.
The storm strengthened rapidly on Sunday to become the second Category 5 of the 2007 season, after Hurricane Dean, which also reached the top category as it killed at least 28 people in the Caribbean and Mexico last month. Yesterday Felix weakened slightly and was downgraded to Category 4, but experts said that it remained extremely dangerous and could regain strength. Telephones and power were out in much of the region, making it difficult to find out what was happening as the storm's winds began hitting the remote, swampy area, much of which is reachable only by canoe. Dean, the first storm of the Atlantic season, killed 27 people in the Caribbean and Mexico last month. Only 31 such storms have been recorded in the Atlantic, eight of them in the last five years.
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