Western Australia braces for 'worst case scenario' as cyclone Seroja nears

Potential for loss of life and serious property damage in unprepared coastal communities; evacuation orders issued.

Nature does not always strike where it is expected, and when it veers from its familiar paths, it finds communities whose memory of danger has grown faint. Cyclone Seroja, intensifying toward Category 3 strength, was bearing down Saturday on Western Australia's Mid West coast — a region too far south to have built its homes, its protocols, or its collective instincts for such a storm. What made this moment grave was not only the wind, but the absence of readiness: decades without cyclonic experience had left both the infrastructure and the people exposed in ways that more northern communities,

Western Australia braces for 'worst case scenario' as cyclone Seroja nears

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