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From: Maynard Riley (weather.watcher{at}mentabolism.org)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 18:10:23 EST
Cyclone Zoe's winds of more than 300km/h and 10m waves shredded Tikopia and Anuta islands last weekend.
The 1300 people on Tikopia, who received their first food and fresh water yesterday, sheltered from the storm fury in caves at the western end of the island.
-- http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5797897%255E663,00.html
homes and crops were destroyed and they would not be able to grow all the food they needed for at least the next three years.
The paper also said their last water supply had been contaminated by salt water.
Aerial photographs taken from a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft showed two villages on Tikopia, which are home to 700 people, had been virtually washed away.
-- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/571477
pictures, taken from a French Defence Force reconnaissance plane, show the once-lush island of Anuta stripped clean of vegetation.
"Where there were once 15 villages there is now just sand and debris."
"There is no sign of any buildings at all where there would have been 100 houses...totally disappeared, not even wreckage poking out of the sand.
-- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/04/1041566269077.html
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