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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 07:40:46 EST
FULL STORY:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/17/content_2587259.htm
QUOTES:
"WELLINGTON, Feb. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Cyclone Olaf has left Samoa mostly
unscathed but continues to hover off the coast of American Samoa with gusts
up to 240kmh predicted to cause damage, New Zealand Press Association
(NZPA) reported Thursday.
Further south, Cyclone Nancy was also forecast to skip past the Cook
Islands Wednesday night. New Zealand High Commissioner to Samoa John
Adank, who is also Consul-General to American Samoa, told NZPA Thursday
morning that Cyclone Olaf had largely passed north of Samoa and the main
American Samoan islands of Manua.
"Samoa's been very very lucky with the track the cyclone took
yesterday," he said. "Overnight we had some gusts of high winds and
tree branches have been coming down, but no trees that I've seen so far,
large trees, as you would normally expect.
"Effectively, the country seems to have got through without terribly
much damage," Adank said, adding there were no reports of injuries. In
Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Cyclone Nancy left schools closed for
Wednesday as roofing and tree branches blew dangerously around
villages. Nancy missed the main island of Rarotonga by about 100km but
big seas caused damage around the coast. Tourists were evacuated from
Aitutaki to the main island of Rarotonga and no injuries were reported."
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