For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com or Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />It was quite an ordeal for one Japanese woman during the height of Cyclone Yasi. Not only was she taking refuge in an evacuation center, but she went into labor.<br /><br />A Japanese woman gave birth to a baby girl inside a crowded evacuation center at the height of Cyclone Yasi.<br /><br />Akiko Pruss and her German husband Christian and their first child were taking refuge in Red Lynch College, a school in Cairns, when her water broke.<br /><br />[Jason Sydenham, Evacuee]: <br />"I'm sure it was a harrowing moment."<br /><br />British midwife Carol Weeks emerged as one of the heroes of the night, after helping deliver the baby in a makeshift first aid room.<br /><br />Weeks was on vacation with her husband Andrew in Queensland to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary... when they were forced to take shelter due to the Category Five storm.<br /><br />The proud parent delivered a healthy girl baby after a three hour labor.<br /><br />[Linda Cooper, Evacuee]: <br />"Very very smoothly. She's either got a very high pain threshold or she's a very strong woman. But obviously we've got no pain relief or anything here for her so a very natural birth in the most unnatural of circumstances...I said are we going to call the baby Yasi, and she actually threw a cup at me."<br /><br />Many people were astounded that Cyclone Yasi - which packed winds of up to 186 miles an hour at its core - did much less damage than feared.
