Desperate villagers demanded fuel today to help their search search for relatives lost at sea near Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.

US, Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched remote jungle beaches and the open sea for survivors and bodies after Hurricane Felix claimed at least 98 lives, many of them Miskito Indians who died fleeing the Category 5 storm.

Hurricane Henriette today threatened Mexico’s mainland on a track for the south-western US, while the weakening remains of mighty Hurricane Felix, far to the south, caused flooding, landslides and at least 9 deaths in Central America.

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

Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast as a record-breaking Category 5 monster storm today in an area home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians.