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There was a 7.0 quake with tsunami in Samoa. Hope everyone's okay out there. It hasn't been a good decade for tropical paradises.

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Heh, gotta love that Pacific Tsunami Early Warning System. That news never made it to the radio, TV or newspaper.

This particular tropical paradise stands a very good chance of experiencing a significant cyclone this year, if the old folks are right. Local wisdom has it that when the fruit are particularly heavy, the weather will be too. This year, there's a bumper crop of mangoes and mandarines. They've arrived almost a month early, and in numbers that I haven't seen, well, since the year cyclone Ivy left me stranded for a week in Ambae.