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Workers scrambled to reach hard-hit outer islands
in Fiji on Monday to fully assess the scope of the
devastating cyclone that struck the Pacific Island
nation over the weekend, killing at least 20 people.
Tropical Cyclone Winston, which lashed Fiji on
Saturday night, is the most powerful storm on
record in the Southern Hemisphere, authorities
said.
The destruction was apparent wherever one looked:
Giant uprooted trees resting upside down on roads.
Houses with their tin roofs torn off. Residents
packing up whatever belongings they could salvage
from their destroyed homes.
"There are Fijians out there who are without water,
without a roof over their heads, without food and
without essential services," Prime Minister Frank
Bainimarama said.
Compounding the challenge for relief workers are
power outages, fallen phone lines and road blocks.
"Winston was a monster of a cyclone," Fiji resident
Nazeem Kasim told CNN. "I have not experienced
anything like this before in my life, nor has my 60-
year-old father."
Monster storm
Winds reached 296 kilometers per hour (184 mph),
the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported.
Had it occurred in the Atlantic, Winston would have
been a Category 5 hurricane, but because of
hemispheric nomenclature, it's called a cyclone. (In
the Northwest Pacific, it would be a typhoon; all
three are the same weather phenomenon.)

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