Throughout Queensland, the cyclone isolated small towns, cut off telephone service, inflicted severe damage to crops, and generated widespread flooding.
In isolated areas with small populations, tropical cyclones may cause enough casualties to contribute to the founder's effect as survivors repopulate their place.
Interviews with survivors there continue, still a month later, to reveal how the combination of weather, topography and a government determined to keep its people isolated and ignorant of their rights turned the cyclone, Nargis, into the world's deadliest natural disaster since the Asian tsunami in 2004.
Further inland, the cyclone damaged bridges and roads, leaving some areas isolated.
An Asian-led taskforce will be formed to help funnel relief into the isolated country and bring life-saving supplies to the 2.4 million people gravely affected by Cyclone Nargis.
An Asian-led taskforce will be formed to help send relief to the isolated country and bring life-saving supplies to the 2.4 million people gravely affected by Cyclone Nargis.
In Mahanoro, the biggest city near the cyclone's landfall in Madagascar, Eline disrupted power and water supplies while also leaving the town isolated.
The Generals in charge of Myanmar, isolated from world opinion as they may be, are nonetheless intent on achieving "Failed State" status with or without a cyclone disaster.
BARGUNA, Bangladesh, Nov. 18 (AP) — The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating cyclone in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday, and officials warned that the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reached more isolated areas.
