I'll huff, and I'll puff....

This is a picture of a small exploration camp in the way of a cyclone.... I think less than 12 hours to impact. This one blew category 4, almost category 5 which means the winds were greater than 250kph. Our guys hooked up the vans and headed up the highway. The donga (set of accomodation rooms could not just be hooked up... instead was chained to the ground with cemented in anchor points).

Some days later we got to go back into the site. The dark rail-track like things in the foreground is all that is left of the donga in the original location. The rest was spread over a trail of at least 2km, where the remnants of a bar fridge (minus the door) was located.

In this cyclone unfortunately 3 people died. We are only now two and a half years on, going through the courts to understand the reasons. If this was anywhere else in the world the number would have been higher. It is just that so few live in this country, but this will always be a lesson that buildings need to be well contructed, properly anchored, and people need to get to somewhere safe (either away from the cyclone or a properly rated building). To see building tossed around like some three year olds play building blocks shows the potentency of these storms.

A new cyclone season is about to commence... it never hurts to be prepared.