The heartbroken household of a pistillate crushed to decease nether her ain campervan during a fierce tempest successful Australia person paid tribute to to 'beautiful' and 'courageous' adventurer.
Eleanor Thompson, 35, is believed to person been seeking structure from Cyclone Alfred's 100mph winds erstwhile the tempest toppled her vehicle.
A hospitality idiosyncratic from Mold, Wales, she was staying successful a location successful distant Burringbar, successful New South Wales, portion the householder was distant successful Melbourne.
In an affectional tribute, her devastated begetter Peter told MailOnline: 'She worked and travelled and visited galore countries. She went to Cambodia, Vietnam, Bali.
'She was an adventurer. She was arsenic courageous arsenic a lion, arsenic funny arsenic a cat, and delicate arsenic a butterfly.
'We are each devastated by what's happened. Our beingness volition ne'er beryllium the same. She was joyful and that amusive was contagious. She is irreplaceable.
'She had a large heart. She wanted radical to bask life. She had a web of friends astir the world.'
Eleanor Thompson, 35, a hospitality idiosyncratic from Mold, Wales, is believed to person been seeking structure from Cyclone Alfred's 100mph winds erstwhile the tempest toppled her vehicle
A hospitality idiosyncratic from Mold, Wales, she was sleeping successful a location successful distant Burringbar, successful New South Wales, portion the householder was distant successful Melbourne
A damaged location is pictured aft a histrion uprooted by beardown winds crashed into the operation successful the suburb of Elanora arsenic Cyclone Alfred passed adjacent the Gold Coast connected March 8, 2025
He added: 'Tributes connected societal media person fixed america a batch of comfort.'
Ms Thompson was 1 of 2 children and had antecedently worked in insurance, successful marketing, successful hospitality and successful a dentists. For portion of her vocation she had lived successful London.
Known arsenic Ellie to friends, a post-mortem introspection recovered she died arsenic a effect of 'multiple injuries' connected March 8.
She had exited her van, which past perchance rolled implicit and injured her during the storm, elder coroner John Gittins said successful an inquest this week.
Her parent Amanda continued: 'She was a beauteous person.
'It's been very, precise hard but the effect connected societal media, she had friends astir the satellite and they person fixed america a batch of spot and comfort. She was well-loved.'
During Storm Alfred authorities successful the portion had warned radical to enactment indoors to debar putting themselves and the exigency services astatine risk.
Ms Thompson was 1 of 2 children and had antecedently worked successful insurance, successful marketing, successful hospitality and successful a dentists. For portion of her vocation she had lived successful London
Known arsenic Ellie to friends, a post-mortem introspection recovered she died arsenic a effect of 'multiple injuries' connected March 8
She had exited her van, which past perchance rolled implicit and injured her during the storm, elder coroner John Gittins said successful an inquest this week
Fallen trees pursuing Cyclone Alfred are pictured supra successful Pottsville Beach, Northern New South Wales, Monday, March 10, 2025
Local residents paddle a canoe down a thoroughfare successful South Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 10 March 2025
Around 290,000 homes were near without powerfulness for days pursuing the tempest successful aboriginal March, with galore Australians needing to beryllium rescued.
Heavy rainfall totals successful southeast Queensland reached astir 1200mm successful immoderate areas.
Brisbane was inundated by astir 280mm connected March 10 unsocial - the city's biggest 24-hour full successful much than 50 years.
The politician of the Gold Coast revealed '80 per cent of our formation is gone' owed to coastal erosion caused by the cyclone - which was aboriginal downgraded to a tropical tempest - truthful a soil bumping barge was sent to the portion to rectify the damage.
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