Cyclone Gita Smacks American Samoa hard Trump declares state of emergency for American Samoa. New Zealand about to be smacked by Gita now a Cat 5

The majority of the main power lines have been fixed but the secondary feeds to the homes are still out.

I was at the War room most of yesterday recharging lap top and cell phone and lending a hand where I could to help.

Here is the 6pm (Sunday, Feb. 11th, 2018) update for each area:

SUMMARY:
65% of Power Customers now have power
85% of Water Customers now have water (some with low pressure)

POWER:
Satala Feeders:
F-4 - Satala plant to shipyard.
F-8 - Satala power plant to LBJ hospital
SK - StarKist
STP - Samoa Tuna Processing
F-1 - Satala plant to Amouli
F-3 - Satala plant to Fagatogo
Tafuna Feeders:
F-6 - Tafuna plant to Tafeta (mainline) and select customers that were safe to energize
F-9 - Tafuna plant to Fogagogo (mainline) and select customers that were safe to energize (ODAPM, Pacific Mini Mart, Cost U Less, KS Mart, others)
F-10 - Up to Auma (mainline) and select customers that were safe to energize
F-7 - Tafuna plant to Ottoville (mainline) and select customers that were safe to energize (Assembly Bible School, Tradewinds, Homeland Security, LDS Chapel, others)
F-5 - Tafuna plant to Fagaalu (mainline) and select customers that were safe to energize (gas station, CBT, Laufou, Hong Kong/Mama's Kitchen, Fagaalu Sewer Lift Station, others)
Feeders that are still off:
None. All feeders are on now (mainline only) with select customers that are safe to energize.
Facilities operating on Standby Generators:
Masefau Water Wells
Fogagogo WW Plant
Coconut Pt 1 WW Lift Station

Restoration Plan:

ASPA is working to repair primary lines first and energize customers that are safe to energize.

Lateral, tap lines and service drops will follow.

Priority facilities include:

Water pump and booster stations. (80% are on now)
Hospitals and heath centers. (All on now)
Airport (On now)
Business areas
Supermarkets and shops.
Gas-stations.

Caution: Treat all telephone and power lines as live at all times.

WATER:

Areas with Water now:
- Tafuna to Canneries has water with low pressure
- Iliili to Tafuna has water with good pressure
- Pavaiai to Futiga has water with good pressure
- Futiga to Leone has water with good pressure
- Leone to Amanave has water with low pressure
- Vailoa to Taputimu has water with good pressure
- Parts of Vaitogi are online with low pressure
- Masefau Village with low pressure
- Pavaiai to Mapusaga Fou (Duke Purcell) low pressure
- Afono Village good pressure
- Pago to Aumi low pressure
- Aunuu with good pressure (No Power to RO Unit)
- All Manua areas with good pressure

Areas to come online later today:
- Aumi to Alofau
- Tafeta to Aoloau
- Fagasa Village

Other areas will follow and more details will be available once crews are able to do an assessment of these areas.

WASTEWATER:

- Airport Lift Station on ASPA power grid now
- Coconut Pt 1 on Generator
- Papa Lift Stations on ASPA power grid
- Sagamea Lift Stations on power grid
- Andy Lift Stations & Coconut Pts 2 & 3 lift stations are off grid
- Fogagogo plant is on Generator

Honey wagon services available to the public if needed. Call ASPA Customer Service.

MANUA:

- All water is on.
- Power is on to all areas except for parts of Olosega due to a down transformer

AUNUU:

- All water and power customers are on now.
- Bluesky and RO Building are not energized yet due to down primary and transformer.

Power at my house was restored at 6 pm all my neighbors are still without power. I was lucky and was the only house with no damaged lines, all the rest were disconnected around me due to trees falling and taking their lines down.

Tropical Cyclone Gita is a monster Category 4, Nuku'alofa badly battered

Thousands of people hunkered down in Tonga are being badly battered by Tropical Cyclone Gita.

Fiji's Met Service said the category four storm was very close to being upgraded to the highest category, five.

It has already washed out building and equipment of Tonga's met office, and Fiji weather forecasters took over issuing warnings for the region from shortly before midnight.

The local radio station is also disabled.

There are reports of very high winds in the capital Nuku'alofa - Gita has winds of 195 kilometres an hour, expected to gust over 200 kilometres an hour.


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Last Edited by Michael. on 02/13/2018 02:42 AM

A slide show of some of the damage here in American Samoa put together by Samoanews.

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I have a good friend in Tonga and like Filipinos, they are much more prepared than most of the zombie demoncraps in the US for disasters.

Like the Cajun Navy who helped rescue same said demoncraps in Houston last year, "Country folk will survive".

The parasite demoncraps have no idea what to do if their EBT won't work and will riot and loot. Rest assured, Pacific Islanders like US country folk know how to live off the land, not off the govt teet.

Cyclone destroys Parliament House, homes on Tonga, Fiji next

The Pacific nation of Tonga began cleaning up damage Tuesday from a cyclone that destroyed its Parliament House, as well as homes and churches, and was intensifying as it headed toward nearby Fiji.

Cyclone Gita caused power outages after tearing through the island nation just south of the capital, Nuku’alofa, with winds exceeding 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles per hour) at landfall. Some 5,000 people stayed in evacuation centers overnight, according to officials, and an emergency was declared. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries or deaths.

The cyclone was intensifying and was forecast to hit some southern Fiji islands Tuesday night, though it’s likely to miss Fiji’s major population centers, including the capital, Suva.

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ASPA War room Update Monday, Feb. 12, 2018 @ 12 noon

POWER:

- All Feeders (Primary lines) are energized 100%

- Total of 7,000 out of 12,000 (58%) customers have power now

- Aunuu has power to all customers now

- Manua has power to all customers now

WATER:

- Total of 8,300 out of 9,600 (86%) customers have water now

- Amanave Booster is energized now with generator. Pressurizing waterline to Poloa to fill water tank

- Pago Wells are all online now. Pressurizing system to supply water up to Alofau and then to Tula/Onenoa later on today

- Need Generators for Aoa, Vatia and Upper Masefau

- Aunuu has water to all customers

- Manua has water to all customers

WASTEWATER:

- All but 3 lift stations are on the power grid now. These 3 lift stations will be energized today.

- Fogagogo & Utulei WW Plants are now on the power grid.

SOLID WASTE UPDATE - February 12, 2018 @ noon

- Futiga Landfill is Open; a designated area for all green waste has been secured.

- Futiga Scrap Metal Yard is also Open for the public to dispose scrap metal wastes only.

- SW Municipal Solid Waste Collectors (contractors) are continuing with their collections (for bin and containers), as per route schedule.

Because ASTCA landlines are down, please contact customer service at

1 week post Gita

ASPA update: 74% have power, 99% have water

Cyclone Gita LATEST: New Zealand braces for storm as residents urged to PREPARE for worst

The latest update from the MetService said the storm was “expected to bring a period of high-impact severe weather to many parts of central New Zealand”.

The storm, which was recently upgraded to category five, has already caused widespread damage in Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa.

Regions including Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, parts of the West Coast, Wellington and Horowhenua are expected to be lashed by more than 100 millimetres of rainfall in just 24 hours.

The MetService warning reads: "Heavy rain will cause slips, rapidly rising streams and rivers, and flooding.

“Severe gales with damaging gusts are expected, so people are advised to secure property and items that may be blown away by strong winds.”

MetService said the coast would be inundated with high tide overnight on Tuesday and dawn on Wednesday “due to the combination of tides, low-air pressure, strong onshore winds and large waves in excess of six meters in some places”.

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Last Edited by Michael. on 02/19/2018 02:20 PM