Updated at 10:40 a.m. ET
The center of Hurricane Eta, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 145 miles per hour, was nearing the coast of Nicaragua on Tuesday, pummeling homes and potentially bringing life-threatening flooding to Central America’s Caribbean coast.
Eta was peeling off roofs, downing trees and power lines in and around Puerto Cabezas, also known as Bilwi, in Nicaragua’s north, according to the country’s disaster management agency, known as SINAPRED. The region of landfall is one of the country’s poorest.
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