Hurricane Felix tore across Central America in early September 2007, hitting land as a powerful Category 5 storm and threatening heavy damage, floods and mudslides in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.

Felix followed hot on the heels of Hurricane Dean, which killed 27 people in the Caribbean and Mexico the previous month. It was the first time two Category 5 storms made landfall during the same Atlantic hurricane season.

The storm hit Nicaragua's Moskito coast on Sept. 4, killing four people and destroying thousands of homes. It continued its path through the flood-prone areas around the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, where the government had evacuated tens of thousands of people.

The hurricane revived memories Hurricane Mitch, which killed more than 10,000 people in Central America in 1998, many of them in Honduras.