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Description
Typhoon damage from a Category 5 typhoon about a week after the storm.Totally wiped out a coconut and breadfruit plantation.Inhabitants dug pit on highest part of island and put coconut logs over pit forshelter. Some fatalities occurred. (Image credit: Dr. James P. McVey)
Photographer
Dr. James P. McVey
Location
Ulul, Truk, Caroline Islands
Collection
Paths Less Taken
Islands in the Sun
Equatorial Pacific
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA Sea Grant Program