- Title: AUSTRALIA: TOWN DEVASTATED BY KILLER CYCLONE.
- Date: 18th November 1976
- Summary: 1. SVs Wreckage and uprooted trees (3 shots) in cyclone-devastated Sandon, Australia 0.14 2. GV People loading debris onto truck 0.18 3. LV ZOOM IN TO Damaged car 0.21 4. GV Barricade and sign across road ZOOM IN TO torn off branches 0.29 5. SVs AND CU Car in which two people were killed (5 shots) 0.47 6. SV AND CU Other car badly damaged in cyclone and woman driver inspecting it (5 shots) 1.01 "Today hundreds of volunteers started cleaning up the remains left by the cyclone, which for a quarter of an hour tore at three farmhouses, uprooted trees and smashed through sheds and properties as its wide front carved out a ten-kilometre-long route. Families today told of hiding under beds when the cyclone suddenly moved down on them and of the countryside looking as if it had been hit by a snow-storm of iron. "Three cars pulled up together as the eye of the cyclone smashed over them, but the couple from Bendigo died in horrifying circumstances, when their car was sucked up and bounced round for about hundred metres in the fierce turbulence of the cyclone. Their bodies were ripped our and hurled to the ground. The front passenger seat belt is still in a clipped-on position. "Mrs. Avis Lear of Newstead and her young daughter were in one of the three cars, and although extensively damaged by stones and sheets of iron, somehow survived the fury of what Mrs. Lear first thought was a huge bushfire." Initials OS TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SANDON, VICTORY, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Reuters ID: LVA8UGSU4X7A6YCGQKFSKLOXBAV5
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