Cyclone Rene photos - 130 K winds - Tonga direct hit - photos

Cyclone Rene went over us yesterday. 130K gusts 90 K sustained. I took a bunch of photos. In fact one of every boats mooring gear in the harbor before the cyclone and then could watch the results. Mainly what I saw was every boat that prepared did just fine, and the ones that did not prepare ended up on the rocks.







The rest of the collection can be seen here-

http://www.tongacharter.com/cyclone-rene.htm

I'm updating it through the day as new photos come in.

Scott

 

Very interesting, Scott.

I'm curious to see, once the storm is past and the damage tallied, how your "pre-storm" photos of preparations and mooring gear compare to the "post-storm" tally of how much damage was done to which boats.... are you planning to publish a report of some kind?

 

The one that did not work

Good question on what did and did not work.

Here is one that failed.



and then this held



I put some more at the end of the photo page.

Scott