Residents on Lord Howe Island endure a sleepless night as ex-Tropical Cyclone Uesi lashes the remote location with wind gusts of up to 150kph and heavy rain.
Residents on Lord Howe Island have had a sleepless night as the remote location received a lashing from ex-Tropical Cyclone Uesi.
The island, 600 kilometres off the New South Wales coast, copped wind gusts of up to 150 kilometres per hour and heavy rain.Local residents spent the night keeping up to date with emergency information — a difficult task with no mobile phone reception and very little internet on the island.But the storm did not deter some visitors like James Eldridge and Julie Bassett — who came to the island to soak up its natural beauty.
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