As a residential rebuild nears completion, residents in Kalbarri say their recovery from Tropical Cyclone Seroja is ongoing, with many remaining 'shaken up' by the disaster.
Three years after it was nearly flattened by Tropical Cyclone Seroja , a residential rebuild in Kalbarri is almost complete.Tropical Cylone Seroja through
Steve Cable, who manages the Kalbarri branch of the State Emergency Service, said the residential rebuild was nearly complete."There were a lot of people quite shattered by the whole event," Mr Cable said.Cyclone Seroja killed 291 people in Indonesia during April 2021 before unusual weather conditions pushed it south towards WA.
"One thing that still lingers with the people that were here, is that strong connection," Mr Cable said.Steve Duncan, who owns a surf shop in town, said repairs had progressed significantly, especially in the past six months."There's a few vacant blocks now where houses once were, that haven't been rebuilt," Mr Duncan said.
"A few places are still under construction and there's still vacant lots of land where places used to stand, so it would be great to see some development going on there too."A sore point in the recovery is that three years on, Kalbarri still does not have an evacuation centre.
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