THE CYCLONE MISSED THE FIJI ISLANDS, BUT ITS RAIN BANDS DIDN’T April 3, 2012 More lectures at Disasters Supercourse - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/collections/collection52.htm Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

8,000 evacuated from Viti Levu, the main island of The Fiji Islands

FLOODING: BA TOWNSHIP ON VITI LEVU, THE MAIN ISLAND

FLOODING IN BA TOWNSHIP

FLOODING IN BA TOWNSHIP

FLOODING

INITIAL REPORTS One-third of homes in Ba township without power Clean drinking water a top priority 2.000 Australian tourists stranded while on holiday in Nadi 5 dead (Floods in the same region killed 11 in January)

INITIAL REPORTS Roads ripped away and inoperable A school was under water 1-km long lines at service stations

RELIEF PARTNERS Fiji’s National Disaster Management Office Fiji Red Cross UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Act for Peace

INTERNATIONAL RELIEF ASSISTANCE Australia pledged $ 1 million Australian dollars ($1.04 million USD). New Zealand pledged $ 500,000 New Zealand dollars ($ 413,000 USD)