Nearly all the buildings on Yap atoll in Micronesia were badly damaged or destroyed in a fierce typhoon last week, the Guam Daily News reported yesterday.
Typhoon Sudal battered Yap, with a population of 8000, on Friday and links to the atoll are still only partly restored.
One person died and the homes of more than 1500 people were badly damaged, officials said.
A Yap State official, Tom Lutte, told the newspaper that the island was devastated.
"Trees are down any direction you turn," he said.
"It's a scene of wreckage all around."
Lutte said most people had no water, electricity or phone services.
The Pacific Daily News said a group of American tourists were flown out yesterday to the United States territory of Guam, 828km to the north, in the aftermath of the storm.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay. ... tion=world
Sudal terror trail in Micronesia
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Nasty!!!!
I was going over the sat. pics from the Monterey tropical site the day they were hit and you can see how the eye slowly curled under them putting them in the NE and E eyewall for an extended period. Also convection was building on the eastern eyewall as the storm pulled off to their west.
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