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Inside a Category 5 Cyclone | How TV News Covers a Natural Disaster

This was originally a video blog Timothy made to better explain to his housemates why he disappears for days on end every time there was a natural disaster. Given that Cyclone Debbie is battering Australia right now, it's a great time to share this throw-back on how we broadcast live before, during and after the havoc wreaked by Cyclone Yasi in 2011. The recent advent of smaller "Dejero" or "LiveU" backpacks for live transmission of camera pictures has made news-gathering a smaller operation in terms of the number of crew on the ground required, although in areas of natural disaster where telecommunication infrastructure may be temporarily disabled, satellite services are still the way to go. At about 12:00 AM AEST on February 3, Yasi crossed the coastline as a severe Category 5 cyclone near Mission Beach, with estimated maximum 3-second gusts of 285 km/h spanning an area from Ingham to Cairns. A record low pressure of 929 hPa (27.43 inHg) was measured as the eye passed over Tully. Due to the size of the system and its strong core, Yasi maintained cyclonic intensity farther inland than normal, finally dissipating into a tropical low near Mount Isa at 10 PM on February 3, 2011, 22 hours after the storm first crossed the coast. The storm caused an estimated AU$3.5 billion (US $3.6 billion) in damage, making it the costliest tropical cyclone to hit Australia on record.