Credit: Domingo
Via Domingo in Maputo: Desastre sem paralelo. [Disaster without parallel] Excerpt from the Google translation:
"I've never seen anything like it" is the phrase that almost all residents of the city of Beira and its surroundings repeat. Cyclone Idai's passage was simply terrifying. It killed, wounded and destroyed everything it could, as seen only in Hollywood film productions. It is no wonder that the whole world is supportive and meaningful. It is that drama requires even millions of arms to make a single force.The 14th of March of this year will never be forgotten by those who lived on the skin of Idai's passage. In fact, thousands of people continue to experience the bitter feeling of living in makeshift shelters above houses, unable to communicate with family and friends even to say "I escaped with my life."The Buzi district is a kind of epicenter of devastation. So far, there are people who do not know what it is to tread on dry land, living on top of what remains of the roofs of houses and other types of infrastructure that have resisted the fury of the wind that passed at a speed above 220 kilometers per hour.Each vessel or helicopter returning from a search and rescue mission in the Búzi or Nhamatanda region brings people of all ages with obvious signs of filiation in their feet, by the excessive time spent in the water that carries a hideous turbidity.There are also many people with wounds in different parts of the body because they have been touched or struck by sharp objects such as nails, remains of lusalite and zinc plates, pieces of wood, which now abound because of the destruction of different types of infrastructures.
