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pl23_mvey0058.jpg

Typhoon damage from a Category 5 typhoon about a week after the storm

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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.

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