Australia: Queensland Recovers from Cyclone Larry

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | 1 comment | March 28th, 2006 | Trackback

Cyclone Larry, a category-five storm that pummeled almost 200 miles of the Queensland coast March 20, destroyed most of Australia’s banana crop, about ten percent of its sugar cane and thousands of homes in the agricultural town of Innisfail, but did little damage to Cairns or other popular tourist sites. The Great Barrier Reef survived largely unscathed, and remarkably, no deaths were reported. For the hard-hit areas recovery will be a long process, but the tourist infrastructure essentially remains in place. Tours of the Great Barrier Reef out of Port Douglas were disrupted only for a day. The cyclone was reported to be the most powerful storm ever to hit the coast of Queensland.

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