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One of the things that amazed me about Mozambique when I flew down there to report on it was the extensive nature of the catastrophe.
It wasn't just in one part of the countryside.
It wasn't just in the north.
It was all over the place. In fact, it was in the capital itself, Maputo.
I can remember on our first day, presenting the six o'clock news and the nine o'clock news (as it was then) from Maputo.
We were standing on what had been before that one of the main roads out of the capital and into the countryside - except of course the road wasn't there.
Turning around, behind where I was standing, there was just this huge ravine where the road had been.
On the opposite side of that I would look across and there was a family huddled together in front of a wall and that wall was all that was left of their house.
You could see where there had been some rooms - you could even see where they had a store and were selling fruit and vegetables.
But all of that had gone.
Overnight they had gone from a stable family with a house and some work in the form of selling for market and they had woken up to find that they had nothing at all.
Later in the trip, I went up north to a small community and you could see it from the air as we flew in.
It was like an island - of course it hadn't been an island - it had been a flood plain.
But we landed on this spot and found a community of 400 people who were completely stranded and the only way they could get help was by helicopter.
That was really what made the whole aid operation very, very difficult because, as you can imagine in a place like Mozambique, there simply aren't that many helicopters.
Some of the helicopters came in from neighbouring South Africa, including the armed forces there that played such a fantastic role.
In fact without their help and without the use of their helicopters many, many more people would have ended up dying and succumbing to those floods in Mozambique.