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esidents of the
Marshall Islands capital Majuro are recovering after a powerful storm damaged
houses and smashed boats on Friday, as an unseasonal typhoon brewed nearby.
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| Marshall Islands Foreign Minister,Tony de Brum - "climate change is here" he tweeted. |
The system was upgraded to a tropical storm on Saturday
afternoon and named Nangka.
Majuro Atoll's normally calm lagoon was turned into a
cauldron of high waves on Friday, ripping fishing vessels and yachts from their
moorings and smashing them on to reefs.
High winds tore roofs from houses, knocked down trees and
caused a power outage affecting half the city which is home to about 25,000
people.
Marshall Islands foreign minister Tony de Brum had just
returned from a United Nations climate conference in New York when he faced the
damaging, unseasonal storm.
"My family home battered by the beginnings of yet
another cyclone. Climate change has arrived," he tweeted.
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