Near Miss

We have just come back to Rarotonga after a 2 week holiday in Dunedin on Saturday. Chris and I realised something odd had happened while we were away when we drove past the Met station on the Sunday and saw a few trees shredded and a large piece of roofing iron impaled into the above branches. We thought WTF?

The mystery was solved when we watched the local news. While we were flying home to Raro the weather was leaving its small but dramatic mark on the landscape and lives of several Raro families. A very localised storm, possibly a twister, struck the island (next to the Meteorological centre- ha!) and proceeded inland and ripped the roofs off three homes in a ten minute blast.
Fortunately no one was hurt.

Picture copyright the CI News