March 14, 1891, Port of Beira.
After entering the new year, Port of Beira, the foremost project in the Mozambique Region, had begun to take shape.
In the original history, Port of Beira had been founded in 1891, while East Africa's construction of it had begun half a year earlier. In its previous life, Port of Beira had been one of the main transit ports for Zimbabwe, the Congo (Kinshasa), Malawi, and Zambia, as well as Mozambique's second-largest port. This showed where Port of Beira's advantages lay.
However, Bella's situation was not good at present. Violent winds howled throughout the region, accompanied by torrential rain that tested this newborn city.
Because of time constraints, many buildings in Bella City had been erected temporarily and were mostly earth-and-wood structures. Under such extreme weather, local buildings suffered tremendous damage.
"This damned weather! I'd never encountered a hurricane of this magnitude back in Dar es Salaam!" Burleyland, Bella City's first mayor, said loudly.
Mozambique was a country plagued by typhoons year-round. East Africa naturally had not known this before—or rather, it lacked experience—because typhoons generally formed near the equator, then developed into typhoons as they moved toward the poles. They were what Burleyland, the mayor of Bella City, called hurricanes.
Typhoons went by three main names: tropical cyclones, hurricanes, and so on. In the southeastern Far East Empire, they were called typhoons, while in the southeastern United States, they were called hurricanes.
Most of eastern East Africa was affected by typhoons, but typhoons in the Indian Ocean region were not particularly powerful. Moreover, Dar es Salaam city was very close to the equator, so it was generally unaffected.
Port of Beira was different. Bella lay near thirty degrees south latitude—twenty-nine degrees—which happened to be a region where typhoons were relatively powerful.
Of course,