Cyclone Chidotore passed across Mayotte, a French enclave in the Indian Ocean, cutting off large portions of the population, leaving thousands thought dead on Monday.
Video shot on the archipeligo, which is located between Madagascar and Mozambique, around 500 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, shows wooden beams from collapsed buildings scattered over the landscape, intertwined with fallen branches and corrugated metal and plastic.
The enormous, towering trunks of coconut trees sway against the gray sky as they bow under the wind gusts. From above, the scale of the damage is visible as a jumbled, multicolored blanket of strewn-about home and building rubble.
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