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Wednesday 2 February 2011

Yasi







From New Matilda
Residents on Palm Island are preparing for the worst as Cyclone Yasi looks likely to submerge and flatten large parts of the island.

Victoria Laine, who is a registered nurse working in the island’s hospital, said only about 600 of the predominantly Indigenous population of 3000 had left the island, while another 300 had made their way to one of the island’s two evacuation centres. The rest remained in houses that were not built to withstand a cyclone of this strength.

"Much of the housing on the island is what we call informal — so made of tin sheets," she said.

Laine said medical staff and police had made the decision to stay on the island, which is 65km north-west of Townsville, to deal with the cyclone’s aftermath.




If it had hit the USA...



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1 comment:

  1. ZimbelThursday, February 03, 2011 5:41:00 am

    Best of luck.

    By the way, a large, but much weaker storm is presently hitting a good chunk of the U.S.A. and Canada.

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