Hurricane Earl made landfall on 4 August 2016, with wind gusts of up to 110 km/h, as estimated by the United States’ National Hurricane Centre. That is devastating news.

They found the roof of the dock palapa (see the first photo in this blog) at El Pescador, a mile up the beach. Katie checking our Capricorn’s boatLater in the day we took a golf cart to San Pedro. 2245 UTC 3 AUGUST 2016 VIIRS VISIBLE IMAGE WHEN EARL WAS NEAR PEAK INTENSITY AS IT APPROACHED BELIZE. The wind strengthened and the rain started pouring, with the waves now literally washing clear up and over our storm wall and up tp the condo. Earl's Remnant Could Spawn an Eastern Pacific Tropical Storm Next Week; Desert Southwest Moisture Surge Also PossibleAfter forming in the western Caribbean on Aug. 2, 2016, Earl made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Belize City, Belize, early in the morning on Aug. 4, 2016.Earl was the first hurricane to landfall in Belize, or anywhere in the western Caribbean Sea west of Jamaica, since Ernesto almost exactly four years ago (Aug. 7, 2012).A second landfall from Earl occurred southeast of Veracruz, Mexico, late on Aug. 5, 2016.More than three dozen people lost their lives in Mexico due to landslides caused by Earl's heavy rains.The system was already impactful prior to being named Earl.

We advocate for effective and principled humanitarian action by all, for all. It was devastating to see the exent and the power of a category 1 hurricane. I am glad, however, that you are safe and what a wonderful gesture on your part to help out your friend in rebuilding his lobster building. Earl became a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday, Aug. 3, when NOAA Hurricane Hunters found winds of 75 mph. As children play in the park, our friend, René sums it all up, “The price we pay to live in Paradise.”Children without a care in the world, even the day after Hurricane Earl!“The price we pay to live in Paradise.” – René, our diving boat skipper for many years at Amigos Del Mar.Will LOVES his shack built on stilts on the water. As such, … He reported that, since the shack was located in the Hol Chan Marine reserve, he would not be allowed to rebuild it unless he reconstructs it immediately. (IMAGE COURTESY OF NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, MONTEREY, CA) Earl was a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made landfall in Belize and crossed Guatemala and southern Mexico. I will look forward to your Alaskan pictures.For many years we have spent at least a day catching lobsters with our friend, Will Alamilla, father of our friend Crazee Eddie Alamilla. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.

Officials provided 15 tons of supplies to the victims, including food, water, and blankets.On August 4, the government of Belize declared a 30-day state of emergency.This article is about the 2016 hurricane. It was now lying in front of Cholo’s Bar on the beach.The building containing a store and the boat gas station was where that hole in the dock on the left is nowRyusei and Katie on the Amigos Del Mar/Cholo’s beachWhere does one start? So sorry you and Tommy didn’t get to ride in Pelatonia. Find help on how to use the site, read terms and conditions, view the FAQs and API documentation.Access your account or create a new one for additional features or to post job or training opportunities.Latest humanitarian reports, maps and infographics and full document archive.List of alerts, ongoing and past disasters covered by ReliefWeb.List of organizations that are actively providing ReliefWeb with content.Curated pages dedicated to humanitarian themes and specific humanitarian crises.Open training opportunities in the humanitarian field.Tropical Storm (TS) Earl was expected to make landfall on Belize, on Wednesday, 3 August 2016, and to further develop into a Category 1 Hurricane.

Heavy rain in Mexico triggered many landslides, several of which proved fatal in the states of Upon its classification, Earl was still moving quickly westward, steered by the strong flow of a Ahead of the precursor wave that became Earl, the NHC advised people in the Leeward Islands, After Earl formed, the government of Honduras issued a The governments of Belize and Mexico also issued a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch from Belize's border with Guatemala northward to The precursor to Earl brought strong winds and heavy rainfall to the Dominican Republic. Hurricane Earl was the first major hurricane to threaten New England since Hurricane Bob in 1991.The fifth named storm of the season, Earl originated from a tropical wave to west of the Cape Verde Islands on August 25, 2010. On Tuesday this week (the day before Hurricane Earl struck) our sevn-year-old grandson, Ryusei, was delighted to catch a few fish as we enjoyed the company and wisdom of this wise Belizean lobster fisherman, who has been coming to this shack since he was 14. We were supposed to leave yesterday, Thursday August 4, 2016.