"These winds can destroy houses, tear off roofs, uprooting trees, damaging power lines."
Violent winds Friday on the archipelago of Vanuatu. Involved, a Category 5 tropical cyclone, named Pam, resulting in heavy rains and gusts on the island 165 km / h. Port Vila, the capital, has barricaded before the arrival of the storm, which had to spend about one hundred kilometers off the coast of the small Pacific archipelago, located northeast of Australia.
The authorities are concerned about the consequences for some 250,000 inhabitants. '' These winds can destroy homes, tearing roofs, uprooting trees, damaging power lines, '' says the New Zealander meteorologist Karen Olsen. The people already face floods and they fear landslides.
Further south, another archipelago of New Caledonia, a French territory, is also threatened by the cyclone. Pam could spend the morning at 170 kilometers east of the island of Maré.
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