Re: 12P: Bora Bora and Tahiti Under-the-Gun
Posted by maheanuu on 2/4/2010, 11:50 pm
Yes, I'm on Raiatea there is another Island in our lagoon it is Tahaa.  We are 17 miles South East of Bora Bora and 17 miles North West of Huahine.  

Bora and us were hit quite hard last night, quite a lot of damage to houses and several boats both sail and power fishing either aground, or thrown out of the water on the docks in Uturoa.  We lost electricity about 6:00pm last night and it just came back on qa few minutes ago...

Apparently there was some damage on the island of Tahiti, I haven't heard about Huahine and Moorea as of yet, but the Australs are now under the gun and the winds are picking up.  I will be watching the local news and weather and will let you know how they fare..  They are expecting winds of 180 - 220 km/h.
I marked the map with my location for you,  We personally only had some tree and banana and flower pot damage, nothing to our house or auto's.
My daughter is a nurses aide at our hospital, and she had to remain on the job for 24 hours and only returned home about 10:00 this morning.  I have not heard of any injuries here or in Bora only property damage.    I have photos and will be posting them on my photo site tonight..  my site is http://mah.smugmug.com  scroll down to the gallery named An Ocean Apart and go to the very last page is indexed older photos first and newer ones last.  

Being a n00bie, I just noticed that I can add photos here...  Live and learn <grin>  Headed off to Photo Shop and do my uploads to my page then will plug them in here...

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12P: Bora Bora and Tahiti Under-the-Gun - JAC, 2/1/2010, 7:06 am
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