Prayer Alert: Nicaragua Slammed by Category 5 Hurricane Felix

by AP Staff/AH : Sep 4, 2007 : FOXNews.com

"The winds are horrible...they send roofs flying through the air, so we aren't going outside because it is too dangerous."

(La Ceiba, Honduras)—The Associated Press (AP) reports that Nicaragua's Miskito Coast took the first full brunt of the record-setting category 5 hurricane known as "Felix," on Tuesday, as it reached landfall with almost 160 mile-per-hour winds.

Many homes were destroyed as the hurricane came ashore at dawn, some, reportedly, with only a few walls that remain. (Photo: FNC)

Red Cross official Claudio Vanegas, in the Nicaraguan town of Puerto Cabezas, said by phone that "The winds are horrible...they send roofs flying through the air, so we aren't going outside because it is too dangerous."