It was clear that she had bonded with the flimsy little tree.
The vast majority of victims are poor small-scale farmers who have no access to safe, sturdy buildings or hard topped vehicles during a storm, and are ignorant of the dangers posed by sheltering under trees and flimsy rain shelters.
The floor is muddy and flattened cardboard nailed to a flimsy frame made from tree branches serve as walls.
The mopane tree - a bit short and flimsy; the red-barked moringa tree - ah, bigger and better.
Some might take issue with this, based on the flimsy evidence that they can see buildings, hills, trees, mountains and things like that everywhere, and may even be in or on them right now.
And a sweet but flimsy explanation why I need a partridge or a pear tree.
Even as a child with limited money and shaky wrapping skills, I could still buy a mass market paperback for everyone in my family, swathe it in flimsy, drugstore wrapping paper and stack them all under the tree in an orderly pile... and in plenty of time to catch The March of the Wooden Soldiers on Channel 11.
The nest is a typical pigeon construction, a flimsy structure of twigs and grasses usually placed high in a tree in thick forest.
A single white egg was laid in a flimsy nest of twigs; more than 100 nests might occupy a single tree.
Since December, it's also had Go Ape, a "tree top adventure" course that allows people to wobble around flimsy platforms secured by a harness and, in my case, pray for it all to end.
The hot season is fast approaching in northern Niger and the sun burns into the flimsy roofs of the refugee tents, the plastic sheeting an incongruous blue against the few stems of green on trees and the dun colour of the sandy ground.
