Teraju.id, Randayan – A strong storm has occurred, followed by the cloudburst. The wind blew from the south of the Randayan Island towards the visitors who were camping. This certainly shocked the people there who were having fun in front of the campfire while preparing the evening meals.
The first hit of the strong wind occured at 19:08 ( 7/8/2016). The wind blew fiercely, harder than the rain that poured down to around 21:48 in the evening. The visitors ran hysterically. Beforehand, the visitors were having fun in front of the campfire while preparing the dinner and not long then the light rain dopped spontaneously with the wind that dashed and washed away the visitors’ tent.
Then the storm hit the island again around 01:12 pm (8/8/2016) but it was different this time. The rain came down tremendously with the wind and followed by a lightning strikes. At that time the residents were sleeping. Not surprisingly, the sounds of thunder and lightning awakened the visitors and the local people.
This incident caused the tents of the visitors broken and blown away. More damages occurred on Ketapang trees (trees of Terminalia Catappa) in which the broken branches overrode 2 tents. The pigeons cage were hit also by the strong wind. It certainly has been no casualties due to this incident, but the loss was estimated at hundred thousand rupiahs.
The next effort was the visitors got in the evacuation to the home of locals. Awang as the worker and the owner of the house said, “When the storm is coming, we can see the signs at the sky at the moment it starts to rain. If the clouds pattern is striped, the wind will blow strong. When it happens, please straightly get into my cottage, the door is unlocked. You can still get into it even though there is no one in the cottage. I help people in the storm”. (Difa WH)
Translator: Christina S