Tropical Cyclone Gita is a monster Category 4, and it’s hammering Tonga

Trees are stripped bare and roofs are torn off on the largest, most-populated islands of Tonga in the South Pacific. Tropical Cyclone Gita is on a rampage, whipping up destructive winds and storm surge in the Polynesian state. A New Zealand reporter is in Tonga, holed up in a hotel. She told her home station […]