The Pardoo Roadhouse bore the brunt of the storm Catastrophe , and damage Damaging was reported Reporting at several other cattle stations and homesteads ; at these sites , the storm Catastrophe damaged Damaging the exteriors of various structures and brought Bringing down swaths of trees .

Indian raiding Attack parties attacked Attack homesteads and villages throughout Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , and Maine over the next six months , and the Colonial militia retaliated Revenge .

ZANU initially defined Statement `` Gukurahundi '' as an ideological strategy aimed Aiming at carrying the war into major settlements and individual homesteads .