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 .

Amidst the solidification of the line between insurgent and government-controlled territory during the ceasefire , warlords took Creating control Control of swaths of land on the insurgent side , leading to Causation further destabilisation .

Sultan Mehmed II had come Arriving out of his recent campaigns Military_operation victorious , adding large swaths of lands to his domains .

Entire swaths of countryside were isolated Preventing_or_letting for days , delaying both reconnaissance and relief efforts .

Catherine the Great of Russia took advantage of the disorder to consolidate her control over the weak polities of the Caucasus , which was , for swaths of it , an integral Persian domain .

Even so , high winds uprooted trees in wide swaths of forests , with those not completely defoliated .