If building costs and insurance liability was all on the homeowner rather than being shared without any comeback, fewer people would choose to live in the cyclone belt or the flood plains.

Ditto folk who choose to live in the bush without adequate fire mitigation strategies built in like rooftop sprinklers and the use of building material that doesn't burn or melt.

A Colourbond fence is the first line of defence in the bush as is clearing the bush around the house and leaving only mown grass in an acre adjacent to the abode.

In cyclone areas the roof must be anchored to the concrete foundation with iron rods. As the roof is the most vulnerable to wind factors. And windows need to be open on the downwind side to create an internal vacuum that literally sucks the roof on!

All very well to remember the stupid and plain dangerous things we did as kids. We're all guilty. But your Dad was right, these events kill people and destroy incomes and mental health.
Alan B.

The word “unpreparedness” sums up Australia. Unprepared for weather that has been typical for over two centuries that we know of; unprepared for the needs of crazy mass immigration; unprepared for the power blackouts that will result from Net Zero; unprepared for an idiot like Albanese who, in turn was completely unprepared to lead a Conga Line, let alone a country.

In South Australia, after the devastating floods, still nothing done about the levees; but what would you expect from an authority (if there is one) that permits vehicle accesses to be cut through the existing levees.

And, we still think that we deserve this country.

The most reliable method of containing structural damage to buildings in a cyclone in New Hebrides, proved to be cables over the roof, tensioned and secured to concrete blocks;
A method that also tended to anchor the entire building to its foundations.