Global warming...just a fad?
Things like the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in 3 decades are just a rather odd coincidence?
Tell that to the thousands homeless in the Outback who now must struggle to put a roof over their heads and move forward in life.
CAIRNS, Australia--Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country's eastern coast Monday.
Amazingly, the storm caused no reported fatalities, and only 30 people suffered minor injuries. But the damage from Cyclone Larry, a Category 5 storm with winds up to 180 mph, was expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Hardest hit was Innisfail, a farming city of 8,500 people 60 miles south of the tourist city of Cairns in northeastern Queensland state.
"It looks like an atomic bomb hit the place," Innisfail mayor Neil Clarke told Australian television. "It is severe damage. This is more than a local disaster, this is a national disaster."
The town urgently needs accommodation for people whose homes were damaged, a power supply to feed hospitals and other infrastructure, he said.
There was no official count of the homeless Monday, but given the number of homes badly damaged, the figure could run into the thousands, Clarke said.
In the battle of mother nature versus man, mother nature wins 99.99% of the time.
My heart and prayers go out to all those Australians who may have lost everything in the remnants of this horrific storm.
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