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Tafitoala, SW Coast - river systems caused havoc for households, killing a 30 year old disabled man.
People stay under their house after cyclone Nargis hit the town of Phyar Pon near Bogalay, southwest of Yangon May 8, 2008. Survivors with harrowing tales of villages smashed by cyclone Nargis are paddling wooden boats to the Myanmar town of Bogalay to find whole streets destroyed and food and water scarce. Almost no aid has reached one of the hardest-hit towns in the Irrawaddy delta of around 50,000 inhabitants, where the storm tore rice mills apart and washed away fishing boats. REUTERS/Strringer (MYANMAR)
Banana plantation slashed as if with a giant hatchet
"March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Cyclone Larry, the strongest storm to hit Australia in 30 years, smashed into the Queensland coast today with about 40 percent more force than Hurricane Katrina at landfall.
The highest recorded winds for Cyclone Larry, a category 5 storm, were about 180 miles per hour (290 kilometers per hour), compared with 125 mile per hour winds for the Category 3 Katrina when it struck land, said James Vasilj, a spokesman with the National Weather Service in New Orleans.
``If a Category 5 hurricane like Larry hit any populated area of the United States, the damage would be absolutely catastrophic,'' said Frank Lepore, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
``You're talking major wall failure on high-rise buildings. A Category 5 hurricane could lift a 2000-pound car and deposit it on a 4-foot-high wall,'' Lepore said in an interview. ``A 150-160 pound person wouldn't stand a chance.''"
Patrick accompanied me, and we both thought the Cyclone would be closed. It wasn't, and it was probably a good thing that we got on before I got too good a look at it.
I like these pictures where you can't tell how big the building in the background is. Gives it a kind of ominous tone, a weird contrast here with the roller coaster.
Annual maintenance on the Cyclone Roller Coaster keeps the jewel of Luna Park in Coney Island running smoothly.
I decided it needed to say Cyclone inside of it. :) I later dabbed a bit of blue in the middle of the "e" so that it would look more like an "e". We'll see how it turns out after it's fired.