flooded by water from the rain. now, the chief of the community here tells me that one of the big concerns in the weeks to come will be simply food because people here rely on farming, on sweet potato to feeds their families. and they fear those little farms will have been destroyed by the rain and the foliage that has come down which will cause their crops to rot. so this is a stricken community that's already hard at work at trying to recover. but you just get a sense from this island, it really highlights how difficult it is for this island nation to communicate with the other islands. if somebody is hurt, they need a propeller plane or a ship to try to get them to the main island, to the main city where there is some electricity. again, communities that are accustomed to severe storms. but again and again you hear from people, this was by far the