Reports of coastal inundation were yesterday received from the Coral Coast.
Several villages along the Coral Coast had also reported sea water entering their villages and houses.
At the Shangri-La’s Fijian Resort and Spa, inundated sea water entered the resort’s mainland.
The resort had to deploy its engineering team to clear the debris accumulated at the edge of the bridge that led to the resort.
“The seawater crossed the bridge at a height of 1.3m because the debris was stuck through the channels of the bridge which led to the overflow to the mainland as well,” resort security manager Paul Rogers said.
He said their team cleared loads of debris stuck at the channel entrance, including a coconut tree.
“At around 6am, the tide was very high, luckily the departing guests had gone to the other side of the bridge before the bridge was flooded.
“We used our fire trucks to get our staff safely to the resort side of the bridge,” he added.
“This was the forecasted weather and a king tide was expected. We expect another huge tide tonight as well before we could pump out the pool of water from the mainland.”
He said they were preemptive as the Fiji Meteorological Service and the Pacific Community (SPC) had sent them a warning on coastal inundation on Tuesday.
“Our operations are running normally.”
The FMS had stated that a coastal sea flooding during high tides would occur along the coastal areas of the southern parts of Viti Levu (from Natadola through to Coral Coast to Pacific Harbour), southern coastal areas of Mamanuca Group, Beqa, Kadavu, Vatulele, Southern Lomaiviti Group and Moala.
