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I’m awake - I have been on and off for hours and I can say the wait is over – Cyclone Pam has been. But I am yet to really see her or the devastation she has brought upon my island home and its people.

The long agonising wait for Tropical Cyclone Pam - a category 5 cyclone - ended on Friday 13 March (evening) as it hurtled into Vanuatu, a country of an estimated 250,000 people. It also hit a number of remote islands as it moved across the eastern part of the Solomon Islands.