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Category 4 cyclone Evan's hit Fiji, live updates !
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[quote:Rain-Man:MV8yMDgzMTU1XzM1MDg3Mzc4XzhEN0NCQkZF] 2.31pm: Pacific Harbour resident Michael Thoms, who lives 40 minutes from Suva on the edge of where Evan is set to hit hardest, said today he'd just watched a tree in his backyard "take off". Mr Thoms said Cyclone Evan was set to be more severe than Cyclone Bebe, which hit the region in 1972 and killed 18 people. "Quite definitely this will be much worse than that one, I feel very sorry for the people up North on the Vanua Levu side." Cyclone Kina in 1993 killed 23 people in the region and left thousands homeless. Mr Thoms said the wind was lashing the side of his house and he was staying indoors. He said he was concerned about the islands of Wallis and Futuna, between Fiji and Samoa. "The storm has passed right over the top of them, 1500 people live on those two islands -I believe they have lost contact, no doubt they are trying to establish contact again," said Mr Thoms. "The outcome there may be a very sad affair". Joanna Underwood of Nadi said they still had power but were forced to stay indoors. She had eight family members at her home and friends who who had flood-prone homes were arriving. "We have nothing else to do here at the moment except stay inside and watch the wind blow everything outside." She said the wind was really starting to blow hard and trees outside were bent over. "It's really gusting, but this is only the beginning of it - the rain has not really started here in Nadi, but once it comes we will then have lots of it." Mrs Underwood said she expected some homes in Nadi would be destroyed as the wind picked up and flooding began. 2.28pm: Gale force winds are causing power cuts across Fiji. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10854568 [/quote]
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After leaving a destructive path in Samoa last week, the category four system is bearing down on Fiji.
Evan is 480 kilometres wide and packing winds of 230 kilometres per hour, making it the strongest cyclone to threaten the country in 20 years.
"The north-eastern part is already experiencing the effect of the cyclone," he said.
Schools are being converted into evacuation centres and the police and military are on standby.
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