Скачать или смотреть Heavy rains drench Honduras flooding communities

(31 Oct 2005)

1. Wide shot of flooded downtown street
2. Various cars driving through high waters
3. Mid shot of flooded businesses
4. Man with bicycle walking through flooded street
5. Various of overflown Santiago river

STORYLINE:

Hurricane Beta's heavy rains drenched Honduras Sunday as the weakening storm moved inland following an early morning landfall.

Honduran authorities evacuated more than 7,800 people from 50 communities along the northeastern Atlantic coast after four rivers overflowed due to heavy rains.

Strong winds from the storm knocked down signs, fences, trees and electricity and telephone poles, cutting off power and communication in
hundreds of communities.

Floods also damaged a large amount of rice, corn and bean crops, and sent snakes out of the jungle into residential areas. There were no reports of snakebites, however.

Honduran President Ricardo Maduro said he had requested the use of helicopters from the U.S. air base at Palmerola, to ferry supplies to flooded areas 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of the capital,Tegucigalpa.

He said the government already had begun distributing about 1,800 metric tons (2,000 U.S. tons) of food donated by the United Nations.

Beta, the 26th named storm of a record Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall near La Barra, Nicaragua, at about 7 a.m. ET as a Category 2 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Beta is the record 13th hurricane of this year's Atlantic storm season.

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