Description ofCyclone Helen from someone who lives within cooeee of Batchelor.
"Cyclone Helen passed right over the top of us at 0300 on Friday night. We lost a lot of trees but suffered no permanent or serious damage........ Helen was only a little one, Cat 2, 130 kph winds and 200 mm of rain....... Well, it was a bit of a fizzer here, compared to what it could have been and might yet become if it tracks out over the gulf an rebuilds itself."