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Thanksgiving Threat

13/3/2014

 
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The middle of March has been the time for a Thankgiving Celebration weekend since a spiritual revival started on Elcho Island in 1979.  Ex-cyclone Gillian is forecast to pass over Nhulunbuy on Saturday afternoon and then Galiwin'ku on the Sunday morning.

MAF is making contingency plans to remove all the aircraft to the Gove hangar and possibly evacuate the families, too.  This will allow the aircraft to become part of any subsequent relief effort that may be required.

People are starting to arrive in Elcho today for the Thanksgiving and will add to the number of people at risk.  Thankfully this is only forecast to be a Category I cyclone with expected steady winds of 60mph and gusts to 90mph.

Please pray that there will be no loss of life and that the cyclone will track away from these two major population centres.  Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala communities house about 4,000 and 2,500 in Galiwin'ku.



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    David and Jen Pett, MAF staff in since 2006, now in Cairns.

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