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TROPICAL STORM DAPHNE A HUGE RAINMAKER IN THE FIJI ISLANDS March 26-April 4, 2012

TROPICAL STORM DAPHNE A HUGE RAINMAKER IN THE FIJI ISLANDS March 26-April 4, 2012 . Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA. CYCLONE DAPHNE: BORN ON APRIL 1, 2012.

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TROPICAL STORM DAPHNE A HUGE RAINMAKER IN THE FIJI ISLANDS March 26-April 4, 2012

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  1. TROPICAL STORM DAPHNEA HUGE RAINMAKER IN THE FIJI ISLANDSMarch 26-April 4, 2012 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

  2. CYCLONE DAPHNE: BORN ON APRIL 1, 2012

  3. System 95P, which eventually became Tropical Cyclone Daphne on April 1, dumped 600 mm (24 inches) of rain in some locations

  4. In anticipation of Daphne’s arrival and the rain, more than 11,700 were evacuated from Viti Levu, the main island of The Fiji Islands, to evacuation centers

  5. On April 3, Tropical Cyclone Daphne moved south toward New Zealand

  6. FLOODING IN NADI (ON VITI LEVU, THE MAIN ISLAND)

  7. FLOODING: BA TOWNSHIP ON VITI LEVU, THE MAIN ISLAND

  8. FLOODING IN BA TOWNSHIP

  9. FLOODING IN BA TOWNSHIP

  10. FLOODING

  11. INITIAL REPORTS • One-third of homes in Ba township without power • Clean drinking water a top priority • 2.000 Australian tourists stranded while on holiday in Nadi • 5 dead (Floods in the same region killed 11 in January)

  12. INITIAL REPORTS • Roads were ripped away and inoperable • A school was under water • Hospital damaged • Crops were destroyed • 1-km long lines at service stations

  13. RELIEF PARTNERS • Fiji’s National Disaster Management Office • Fiji Red Cross • UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) • Act for Peace

  14. INTERNATIONAL RELIEF ASSISTANCE • Australia pledged $ 1 million Australian dollars ($1.04 million USD). • New Zealand pledged $ 500,000 New Zealand dollars ($ 413,000 USD)

  15. The immediate concern: health problems, especially communicable diseases, starting at the evacuation centers

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