Bloody Cyclone?

Source - click on the link and check out the forecast line at the bottom!

Oh for crying out loud - look at the above!

A bloody cyclone in May?

Anyway, it is what it is and for now, it looks like we will not be directly affected but will have to eat plenty of rain and wind - not nice!

You know what to do!

PS - and here it is, named Donna. Poor Vanuatu!

This is the real thing on Sunday, May 7 - source.
 

Vanuatu - Urgent Help needed!

Before and after. Being an urban setting, this far from the worst - Source.

It is much like I feared.

The situation on the ground is really very very bad.

Among many, read this, this and this, and watch the videos, e.g. the second one here. Those people in the outer islands live subsistence lives and are among the poorest of the poor, and had little to start with - but now they have lost everything: their homes, their crops, their belongings, even their sources of drinking water.

Here is a list of orgs that accept donations.
Please, if you can, give generously.

And don't only think about money - clothing and household items go a long way in helping rebuild lives.

Thank you.

Pam - Vanuatu!

Source.

First images from the capital Port Vila.

This is a proper town with reinforced structures.

There's nothing like that on the outer islands, and chances are that people have lost everything.

Stories here and here.

The relief effort should get under way shortly.

Please do consider making a donation.

 

Thank you.

Pam - Port Vila!

Source - click for detail.

This is absolutely devastating.
God have mercy on those poor souls.