Excerpt from the SZ of Tuesday the 13th January 2009:
"Large parts of the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific are following the devastating storms of water on many islands fell temporarily from power, telephone lines work only sporadically in the west of the main island, where from three cities after days of continuous rain water.. stood, the emergency was declared Seven people have come to official figures, the floods killed;.. Thousands were forced to leave their homes, the government fears the outbreak of typhoid fever, because the drinking water reservoirs are contaminated, and starts on Monday a global aid appeal, ... the restaurants were closed because food would be scarce. The tourists were sitting often set in their rooms. The drinking water was rationed. The health authority called on people to gather to drink rain water, the authorities imposed curfew in the city to looting prevent. "
It takes less than five seconds after I step out of the protection of the canopy of the international airport in Nadi and begins like to pour down with rain. It is Wednesday the 17th of January and when I go to Air Pacific to switch my connecting flight to the nearest island of Kadavu confirmed, I expect a surprise The news that a cyclone (aka Hurricane) is moving to the islands and it is unclear whether the small twin-engine Twin-Otter flight the next morning at all can. The palm trees bend in the strong wind gusts from deep gray sky and watch you have to get not one or the other by waving palm fronds in the face. The beaches are no longer recognizable by the incoming waves brown. Boarded faces at the tables in the restaurant.
And what you do on a world trip when you get there, and thanks to the Internet immediately recognizes that the following five days will be completely shitty weather? You sit down in the next (and last) machine out and just fly to Hawaii .... is indeed just around the corner.
"Large parts of the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific are following the devastating storms of water on many islands fell temporarily from power, telephone lines work only sporadically in the west of the main island, where from three cities after days of continuous rain water.. stood, the emergency was declared Seven people have come to official figures, the floods killed;.. Thousands were forced to leave their homes, the government fears the outbreak of typhoid fever, because the drinking water reservoirs are contaminated, and starts on Monday a global aid appeal, ... the restaurants were closed because food would be scarce. The tourists were sitting often set in their rooms. The drinking water was rationed. The health authority called on people to gather to drink rain water, the authorities imposed curfew in the city to looting prevent. "
It takes less than five seconds after I step out of the protection of the canopy of the international airport in Nadi and begins like to pour down with rain. It is Wednesday the 17th of January and when I go to Air Pacific to switch my connecting flight to the nearest island of Kadavu confirmed, I expect a surprise The news that a cyclone (aka Hurricane) is moving to the islands and it is unclear whether the small twin-engine Twin-Otter flight the next morning at all can. The palm trees bend in the strong wind gusts from deep gray sky and watch you have to get not one or the other by waving palm fronds in the face. The beaches are no longer recognizable by the incoming waves brown. Boarded faces at the tables in the restaurant.
And what you do on a world trip when you get there, and thanks to the Internet immediately recognizes that the following five days will be completely shitty weather? You sit down in the next (and last) machine out and just fly to Hawaii .... is indeed just around the corner.
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