{"id":2719,"date":"2021-01-30T03:37:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2021-01-30T03:37:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:37:11","slug":"severe-storm-at-the-islands-26-june-1891-many-of-the-islands-being-almost-inundated-with-salt-water-imagine-the-alarmist-meltdown-if-this-happened-now-while-pretending-funafuti-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=2719","title":{"rendered":"SEVERE STORM AT THE ISLANDS. 26 June 1891. \u201cmany of the islands being almost inundated with salt water.\u201dImagine the alarmist meltdown if this happened now while pretending Funafuti is already sinking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Henry, of the island steamer Archer, which has just returned from a three months\u2019 cruise through the Pacific, states that a very severe storm had burst over some of the islands, causing much damage, between March 12 and 16 a heavy gale of wind passed through the southern parts of the Ellice Group, and extended its destructive operations as far as the Gilbert Islands, doing great damage to property,<strong> many of the islands being almost inundated with salt water.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"25493169\" data-x=\"2894\" data-y=\"4860\" data-w=\"676\" data-h=\"657\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">At Oaitipu, Anamona and Anamauca the mission houses were washed away. At Funafuti all the tara plantations were almost completely destroyed by salt water, which was driven inland by the terrific storm.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read clicked\">About eight or 10 days after a lot of wreckage was washed ashore at the Marshall Group, which included a ships wheel, rudder, part of a lifeboat and various other articles belonging to a Dutch vessel, which had evidently come to grief during the storm.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Henry, of the island steamer Archer, which has just returned from a three months\u2019 cruise through the Pacific, states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[391,1145,67,587,586,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}