Cyclone Yasi
Actually the eye passed over the coast about midnight last night our time, and freakishly ended up going through the one spot on the coast where the population density is lower, though towns of Tully, Cardwell and Innisfail were again hit hard. They were those struck by Larry in 2005, but as so many houses were wrecked and rebuilt to modern cyclone strength codes, building damage appears to have been much less this time - so the codes worked, and that is one good thing. So far news re the marinas has not come in, so I still hold grave fears for a lot of boats being damaged or sunk. Watch this space......
Re FEMA, Marin, (and Carey), thanks for the thought, but we actually have a very good SES (Special Emergency Services) organisation over here equivalent to FEMA who do an amazing job, and things like that appear to have been handled very well.* Regretably this is such a country of extremes they get a lot of practice.* If it's not cyclones, tornados or floods, it's bushfires.....
-- Edited by Peter B on Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 11:08:05 PM
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