Dozens of people forced to live in tents in a Northern Territory remote community for the last three years have been displaced due to the damage caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie.
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie passed over Peppimenarti as a category one system late on Thursday night
A senior traditional owner says around eight homes were destroyed three years ago, but had never been repairedThe system passed over the community of Peppimenarti late on Thursday night, flattening tents where more than 30 people had been living since 2020Traditional owner Regina Pilawuk Wilson said the system brought strong winds travelling over 110kph and heavy rain.
"When we woke up this morning, we've [sic] seen all the tents were down, everything was damaged," she said.Ms Wilson said that over the course of the night, a tent in her backyard that had been housing family members was damaged by a deluge of rain.Regina Wilson says about eight homes were destroyed three years ago.
Ms Wilson said the wet season weather conditions — which usually see torrential downpours for months of the year, and the community cut off by floodwaters — already made for grim living situations, but the cyclone had made things much worse."Twenty people are in my house with one toilet, one shower."
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