Nana has become a category 1 hurricane in the passage from this Wednesday to Thursday continues to advance westward, gaining strength over the warm waters of the Caribbean, in a trajectory that will take it to the Central American nation of
Belize, where thousands of people They stock up on food, water and construction materials
,
The Associated Press
news agency reported Wednesday
.
There were long lines at supermarkets and many of the supplies in hardware stores sold out as Belizeans scrambled to wall up windows and protect the doors of their homes
before Nana makes landfall, possibly as a hurricane, on Wednesday night. or in the early hours of Thursday.
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On Wednesday night Nana was about 100 miles east-southeast of Belize City, with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.
The storm was moving at 15 miles per hour and is expected to strengthen throughout the day.}
Belize issued a hurricane watch for the entire coast.
Nana was located 65 miles northeast of the Honduran island of Roatán, a popular tourist destination.
Heavy rains are expected in Belize, as in northern
Honduras
and throughout
Guatemala
when the storm crosses the isthmus on Thursday.
The
southeast of Mexico
and the peninsula of
Yucatan
have received Tropical storm warnings and there are warnings of possible flash floods.
Nana's trajectory is expected to take her to the Pacific coast in the following days, between the border of Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Local leaders in rural villages in the Toledo district, in the extreme south, awaited the order of the National Organization for Emergency Management to open shelters with the added difficulty of maintaining distance between people due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As night
fell
,
dark clouds were visible on the horizon as restless residents awaited the arrival of the storm
, the news agency reported.
With information from The Associated Press and Prensa Libre