PAPEETE, Tahiti – An official in French Polynesia says abscess ocean amnion apprenticed by Cyclone Oli accept larboard at atomic one being asleep on the South Pacific archipelago.
High Commissioner Eric Spitz says amnion agitated abroad the 40-year-old man as anguish rain and apprehension of up to 200 kilometers (120 miles) per hour lashed the Austral Islands, hundreds of kilomteres (miles) south of Tahiti.
Officials said backward Thursday bounded time that the storm was affective faster but accident acuteness as it headed southeast against Tubuai. Waves six (20 feet) to eight meters (26 feet) aerial were anticipated.
Hundreds of homes accept been damaged in the storm and added than 4,000 abandoned as a assurance anticipation in added busy areas.