Vanuatu disaster

ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
edited May 14, 2015 in The Big Picture
Just thinking of an old dgrinner, gus, who I believed moved to Vanuatu. Hope he's okay.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31887286

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Chris

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,905 moderator
    edited March 15, 2015
    He's OK. He visits the island often and posted some pics of some of the structures he'd taken on his last visit.

    The damage and loss of life is immeasurable-it doesn't look like there was any real place for residents to shelter from that kind of storm.

    Ironically, this week's Air Disasters featured a NOAA P3 Orion with a belly RADAR and a military C-130 penetrating Hurricane Hugo. Sort of brought the magnitude of what happened in Vanuatu to the forefront and put a pretty serious face on the disaster.
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2015
    ian408 wrote: »
    He's OK. He visits the island often and posted some pics of some of the structures he'd taken on his last visit.

    The damage and loss of life is immeasurable-it doesn't look like there was any real place for residents to shelter from that kind of storm.

    Ironically, this week's Air Disasters featured a NOAA P3 Orion with a belly RADAR and a military C-130 penetrating Hurricane Hugo. Sort of brought the magnitude of what happened in Vanuatu to the forefront and put a pretty serious face on the disaster.

    Ian,

    If you communicate with Gus, please tell him I said hi!
    Thanks,

    Sam
    www.samlinvillephotography.com
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