Adam Boland & partner caught up in Vanuatu cyclone

Former TEN producer Adam Boland and partner Kenny Ang have escaped the wrath of Cylone Pam in Vanuatu.

Fairfax reports they were evacuated from their home on Wednesday and took shelter with Boland’s mother on the country’s main island, Efaté, as the worst of the storm hit.

Ang told the newspaper, “It was quite scary.

“Where we were, we didn’t even get the worst of it.

“It sounded like a velociraptor shrieking and all we sort of saw was black, things [were] just banging. There’s devastation everywhere… we got hit hard, but drive into town and everyone’s been hit so much harder.”

The bridge from North Efaté to Port Vila was ripped up and washed away in #TCPam. Adam and I had to swim across. pic.twitter.com/K9rPA9XC2l

— Kenny Ang (@kenny_ang) March 15, 2015

Winds of more than 270 kilometres per hour razed homes, smashed boats and washed away roads and bridges as the cyclone struck late on Friday and into Saturday. An estimated 10,000 people are homeless in the wake of the category five storm.

ABC reports at least 10 people were reported dead, including two people on Tanna Island, about 100 kilometres south of Port Vila, but the toll was almost certain to rise as rescuers reached the low-lying archipelago’s outer islands.

Australia’s contribution is part of an initial assistance package announced by Foreign Affair’s Minister Julie Bishop, which included $5 million for Australian NGOs and UN agencies on the ground in Vanuatu.

Donations: care.org.au