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Tropical Cyclone Larry announced itself with a roar of wind through the streets of Innisfail around 5 a.m. last Monday. The day before, the 8,500 residents of the tiny far north Queensland town had enjoyed some blue skies and a light breeze, making the urgent warnings on television and radio sound faintly ridiculous. But 650 km to the northeast, Larry was sucking power from the moisture-laden tropical air, its growth favored by circulation patterns over the warm coral seas south of Solomon Islands. Overnight, the 200-km-wide Category Four storm zeroed in on the cane and banana...
...About 4:30 a.m. in East Innisfail, Karl Hocke and his family were woken by the wind battering their hillside timber-and-fibro home. They sat together in the lounge room, hoping the worst had passed, but by 5 a.m. the house had begun to vibrate with alarming regularity. When 18-year-old Nikita went to the toilet she found she couldn't sit down because the seat was bucking so badly. The glass doors on the veranda were bowing inward; Karl tried to calm his 13-year-old son Aden, while his wife Jenny put down towels to stop...
...trials of playing the bush are formidable. The Queensland Symphony Orchestra, for instance, travels 3,500 miles a year in four wooden railroad sleeping cars, carrying with it such essentials as stage curtains, lights, primus stoves and portable iceboxes. In the town of Innisfail, instruments too big to go up the hilltop concert hall's narrow stairway were hoisted 80 ft. by steel cables. At Townsville the musicians heard an ominous crackling sound, scrambled offstage seconds before a 30-ft. beam crashed down on their music stands and chairs...