Yesterday, the day after more than 2.5 million people took to the streets to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the population of Tahiti woke up to widespread flooding. The night before some sixty liters of rain had fallen per square meter, following several weeks of wet weather. Papeete was underwater, the Sunday morning market was closed, hundreds of people were evacuated, mostly on the North and West coasts, many have lots everything they owned. The French Polynesian High Commissioner and President have declared it a natural disaster.
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| photo: S.Gelima |
The airport was closed for 24 hours, though it has been re-opened this morning. It's the worst flooding in living memory. Our hearts go out to friends and family in Tahiti.
Some six hundred kilometers south in Rurutu, we are grateful that the sun shone bright all weekend.
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