Cyclone Seroja: Hundreds of Kalbarri residents attend community meeting in wake of destruction

A round of applause rippled across a town meeting held at the local golf course today when it was announce phone reception had been returned to Kalbarri – almost 36 hours after it had been lost.

DFES deputy operations officer Tim Dalwood told the 400-plus people inside the room he had never seen a community come together like this before.

“Your resilience is ten-fold. It gives me goosebumps thinking about it,” he said after describing seeing residents picking up their neighbours’ roofs and families taking in strangers who had nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat.

“The resilience of this community is something I have not seen at this high level in my career."

• Trucks and caravans stranded as roads remain closed
• Aftermath of Cyclone Seroja shows carnage in Kalbarri
• GALLERY: Seroja’s destruction in Kalbarri, Northampton

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