Giovanna The Cyclone

I stayed up late Monday night, and heard that the weather started changing into heavy rain and a lot of wind. And yesterday I woke up from some strange sounds that I haven't heard in this house before. It was a cyclone coming to town, and the weather was acting angry! We were sitting inside having dinner around noon, when we looked out the window that a tree fell really close to our house. It fell over the electrisitywire, so then we didn't have electrisity or water for some hours. But when the cyclone had left the area, it didn't take long until there was someone here to fix it! I was surprised how fast they managed to get it back, and now we have water and electrisity again!

There has been alot of damages in other parts of the country, so we were lucky here in Antsirabe. I have heard that in a town called Vatomandry there has been 7 out of 10 houses completely destroyed. And I also heard that some government buildings have been destroyed, but I haven't heard which or what kind. It is reported that three people have died, and we don't know how many injured. UNICEF has started providing emergency supplies to around 100.000 people. It's also said that there will be another cyclone coming next week from the Indian Ocean, but we are really hoping it won't.

Here you can see the outside of our house.

 Here is the tree that fell over our electrisitywire, and almost hit our house.

This is the tree from the other side of the hedge..

Us on our way to the market after the worst of the cyclone had left. It was not a lot of people in town today, and there was damages on some of the buildings on the way.

It's fun having mom here to "capture the moment." Here we are bargaigning with the vegetable-lady. We had to pay 2000Ar (6kr) for all the vegetables we needed for making tacos.

Some more damages at the school.

And this is the entrance of Tombontsoa.

- Mary Ann