'The water kept rising': How Mozambicans were caught in path of deadly cyclone

Women queue for food in a camp for people displaced in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

For two days before Cyclone Idai hit, a government official drove down the bumpy roads of Buzi in central Mozambique, warning people through a megaphone that a big storm was coming.

He told them to find a place to shelter, but many people in the once bustling estuary town did not know where to go.