A man pushes his truck in a flooded street in La Ceiba, Honduras, after Hurricane Felix dumped rainfall throughout Central America. - AP

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP):

Felix walloped Central America's remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California yesterday as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder with twin storms making landfall on the same day.

Henriette's eye struck Los Cabos at around 2:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. EDT, 2000 GMT), said Daniel Brown, a specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

That was roughly eight hours after Felix roared ashore before dawn as a Category Five storm along Nicaragua's remote north-east corner - an isolated, swampy jungle where people get around mainly by canoe. The 260kph (160mph) winds peeled roofs off shelters and a police station, knocked down power poles and stripped humble homes to a few walls in Puerto Cabezas, where most buildings were damaged and the dock was destroyed.

No deaths so far

There were no immediate reports of deaths, and Felix weakened to a Category One storm with winds of 120kph (75mph) by yesterday afternoon. But forecasters worried that up to 64 centimetres (25 inches) of rain would drench inland towns and cause mudslides in the mountain capitals of Tegucigalpa and Guatemala City, where shanty towns cling precariously to hillsides.

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch parked over the same region for days, causing deadly flooding and mudslides that killed nearly 11,000 people and left more than 8,000 missing.

The Honduran government was letting water out of dams in an attempt to reduce flooding, and 10,000 people were being evacuated from high-risk areas of the capital, mostly from poor neighbourhoods and street markets that ring the city.

"If they don't do it voluntarily, we will force them," Tegucigalpa Mayor Ricardo Alvarez said. "We have 500 soldiers and 200 police for just that purpose."

At 5:00 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT), Felix's centre was 175km (110 miles) west of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and it was moving westward at near 22kph (14mph), the U.S. Hurricane Center said. It was expected to move over Honduras last night and early today, the centre said.