Speech competition

Hi I’m Riley and I’m from room 15 at frimley school.  Today I will be talking about cyclone bola.  “Hawkes bay can expect bad weather, there is a storm on its way”, were probebly probably the words over the news.   Everyone thought it would be an everyday storm.  When the storm hit trees were ripped out of the ground and roofs were ripped off houses.

Cyclone Bola started to come in on Feburary February 24th 1988 and burned out on March 4 1988 which means it was 8 days long, plus torrential rain for 3 days!  Cyclone Bola anyalated anhialated annihilated Fiji before moving on and destroying the East coast of N.Z.  Most cyclones decay before hitting N.Z coasts but this one didn't, it passed straight through gisbourn gisborn gisborne.

The cyclone caused some of the most rain from a single storm that has ever hit N.Z.   Cyclone Bola also flooded Northland destroying phone lines and electricity.  Flooding caused bridges to be wiped out and slips from water turning dirt to mud.  Water also started seeping into low lying houses through doors.  Flooding trapped people for a while until they could get people in to help them.

Electricity stopped from high force winds blowing the support beams which caused them to fall.  Some people were really lucky to have genarators genorators generators so they didn't have to hand wash clothes and dishes.  People had no lights or purifide purified water so ocasionaly ocassionaly occasionally people would visit neighbours for help and supplies.  Electricity went out for a few days which also ment meant they had to cook on a BBQ or potbelly.

Bridges were destroyed which meant people were  isolated.  They couldn’t leave to Toapo, Wairoa or anywhere else in N.Z.  People couldn’t go to other countries to get out of the storm unless they went by boat.  People were stranded in Hawkes bay and Gisborne for over a week.  Since the bridges were destroyed people wedged pieces of wood into the train tracks to drive over!  

People had to leave their homes to help clean up.  Some people such as my grandad had to help fix the machines that were clearing the roads.  The people helping fix the machines were crazy to, A leave their homes and B to drive over the train track bridges.

Cyclone Bola was crazy and we’ve learnt our lesson to be prepared for even the smallest natural disasters.  Some things you could have in your survival kit incase this happens again are a torch, spare batteries, canned food, a can opener, some matches a pocket toolkit that has a flat-head screwdriver, a portable radio and some water.