12 hrs. after the Felix disaster:
Consultations and predictions…My job description
The map shows the heavily populated region Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast that took Felix's best hit. Awastara is 26 miles North of Pto. Cabezas and just South of it is a 50' hill where survivors will be praying for water in the heat. All these villages were just above sea level and could not withstand an 18' tidal surge with 30' waves on top.
All the water wells will be fouled for some time unforeseeable. The crops and livestock are gone. The huts are gone. There are only snakes in the trees with the buzzards and steaming heat.
6.56 miles WNW of Kaska is a 60-foot hill of refuge for all these villages. The Miskito will be there, waiting for the fouled waters to recede, digging graves or hanging from trees. In several days the flies will take over.
12,000 people lived in this region. Three days from now there will be much death, 100% dysentery, hundreds of bodies and cholera, if not typhoid.
Only US, British, Dutch or even French naval helicopters could help right now. The people could walk out as it dries, if they had water, but they will be weak.
All who are on these hill tops will likely die.
Press could help if there was video tomorrow. Perhaps someone would see the video of this desperation. Josh (011-505-443-9550) and Jason ( 011-505-477-5286) have HDV with directorial production skills and are in Managua, but have little chance of getting a heliocopter...all the politicians have them for photo ops. in Pto. Cabezas and the price is up 500%.
Cheer up, I'm sure it is just as bad along the Rio Coco. I imagine hundreds of paralyzed divers are dead. I hope that is somehow merciful.
I will continue to send you maps and the high points of refuge and point out obstacles, aids, regional needs, disease hazards, local doctors and whatever you ask, but water is king... I remain willing to consult about logistics or travel anywhere on the Miskito Coast in Nicaragua, or in Honduras, 24 hrs per day. This is a great and silent tragedy; a laisse-faire genocide in the heart of the Miskito Kingdom...home to some of the last free people on earth.
Without a miracle, there is no way to blunt this disaster…
IZ
www.suboceansafety.com
Consultations and predictions…My job description
The map shows the heavily populated region Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast that took Felix's best hit. Awastara is 26 miles North of Pto. Cabezas and just South of it is a 50' hill where survivors will be praying for water in the heat. All these villages were just above sea level and could not withstand an 18' tidal surge with 30' waves on top.
All the water wells will be fouled for some time unforeseeable. The crops and livestock are gone. The huts are gone. There are only snakes in the trees with the buzzards and steaming heat.
6.56 miles WNW of Kaska is a 60-foot hill of refuge for all these villages. The Miskito will be there, waiting for the fouled waters to recede, digging graves or hanging from trees. In several days the flies will take over.
12,000 people lived in this region. Three days from now there will be much death, 100% dysentery, hundreds of bodies and cholera, if not typhoid.
Only US, British, Dutch or even French naval helicopters could help right now. The people could walk out as it dries, if they had water, but they will be weak.
All who are on these hill tops will likely die.
Press could help if there was video tomorrow. Perhaps someone would see the video of this desperation. Josh (011-505-443-9550) and Jason ( 011-505-477-5286) have HDV with directorial production skills and are in Managua, but have little chance of getting a heliocopter...all the politicians have them for photo ops. in Pto. Cabezas and the price is up 500%.
Cheer up, I'm sure it is just as bad along the Rio Coco. I imagine hundreds of paralyzed divers are dead. I hope that is somehow merciful.
I will continue to send you maps and the high points of refuge and point out obstacles, aids, regional needs, disease hazards, local doctors and whatever you ask, but water is king... I remain willing to consult about logistics or travel anywhere on the Miskito Coast in Nicaragua, or in Honduras, 24 hrs per day. This is a great and silent tragedy; a laisse-faire genocide in the heart of the Miskito Kingdom...home to some of the last free people on earth.
Without a miracle, there is no way to blunt this disaster…
IZ
www.suboceansafety.com
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