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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