In the middle of cyclone preparation I found a baby bird – one tiny, wild life amid the wind and rain | Jessie Cole

This is the fourth natural disaster I’ve experienced in the last eight years .

One-in-100 -year floods ( 2017 ), unprecedented bushfires ( 2019 ) and now Cyclone Alfred are a new threat.

I live in a forest my parents planted, and the house is submerged in trees.

The house is made up of separate rectangular modules that all run along an open central walkway.

The power had gone out days before and we'd already lost all the food in our fridge.

With no power, we had no water, which made life tricky.

At home, I checked my landline to find a rare rose-crowned fruit dove had been prioritised.

It would be reared to adulthood and released.

Four natural disasters in eight years has left us wondering what is this new world we're inheriting?.