(Guardian) Nicaragua today evacuated 12,000 people from its coastline as Hurricane Felix struck land with the potential to wreak catastrophic damage.
The maximum-strength, category-five storm, with winds of 160mph, ripped off roofs and brought down electricity lines only two weeks after Hurricane Dean struck Mexico, further up the Caribbean coast.
"The wind is terrible. There's a roaring when it pulls the roofs off the houses," Lumberto Campbell, a local official in Puerto Cabezas, told a radio station before being cut off.