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How Yasi — ‘the mother of all cyclones’ — improved Queensland’s natural disaster response
Cardwell resident Robyn Smith remembers a creeping sense of dread as she watched Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi approach the Far North Queensland coast 10 years ago.
“The police were going around the back streets — it sounded like World War III — on their microphones going, ‘This is a mandatory evacuation’,” Ms Smith said.
“This thing … could swallow up Queensland and it was coming for us, and I realised that life wasn’t going be the same tomorrow.”
Ms Smith hunkered down in a bathroom with six others and a dog while the category five system bore down overhead.
“We knew that the house upstairs had…
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