Reporting Disasters : local journalist 1

Communities left without power and phones by Cyclone Yasi looked to local newspapers during the emergency.

John Flynn, 39, is a reporter for the Innisfail Advocate, a newspaper located at the very centre of Cyclone Yasi’s  storm damage in north Queensland.

Flynn said that when he attended the local disaster management comittee , he was told that he would have to evacuate his house at Flying Fish Point, where there was expected to be a six metre ocean storm surge.