Cyclone Larry 30 March, 2006
July Update: In today’s paper there was an article about the amount of homes still waiting for repairs or demolition due to damage caused by Cyclone Larry. The relentless wet weather has made it difficult or impossible for tradespeople to work on these 7500+ homes in Innisfail and surrounding areas.
April Update: I am amazed at the amount of media coverage more-or-less saying that things are okay in cyclone affected areas. There are headlines celebrating how many can now access power and how many millions the government has promised. But day-to-day life in the zone is still a very scary situation for so many people…
I like the comments here: Cylone Larry: The Aftermath
Our Experience:
On Monday 20th March 2006, a category five cyclone smashed into the north Queensland coast in the Innisfail region and blew right across the top end, settling as a tropical low north of Mt Isa.
See: Bureau of Meteorolgy - Cyclone Larry
We were on holidays visiting friends on the Atherton Tablelands. We’d heard the cyclone warnings over the weekend and decided that we were in a safe place with plenty of supplies, so stayed put. So many tropical cyclones change paths, turn around, fizzle out and otherwise allow us reprieve each monsoon season. Not Larry. (more…)
