It weakened to a tropical low near Mount Isa around pm on 3 February. The eye of the cyclone passed over Dunk Island and Mission Beach between Innisfail and Townsville bringing significant winds, the highest estimated at kilometres per hour.
Overall, approximately 1, people reported significant damage to their homes. Other impacts include power loss to more than , properties, cars found metres away from where they were left and boats piled on top of each other in some regions.
Rainfall totals for the hour period to am Thursday 3 February were millimetres in the area between Cairns and Ayr, causing some flooding. A 5 metre tidal surge was observed at the storm tide gauge at Cardwell. By Hayley Gleeson. As a cultural moment, it's undeniably huge, but the question now is: will political leaders take the rage and grief behind these marches seriously?
By Penny Travers. Corry Collins didn't take up running until she was Now 84, she's setting world and national athletics records. Corporate psychopaths cost the economy billions of dollars not only through fraud and other crimes but through the personal and organisational damage they leave behind as they climb the corporate ladder. External Link: Cyclone Yasi approaches Queensland coast. Queensland Police Service Photo: British backpacker Kerrie Walter front joins hundreds of frightened residents at the evacuation centre in the old Town Hall as catatrophic cyclone Yasi approaches Innisfail on February 2, Yasi, packing a kilometre-long storm front and an eye measuring about 35 kilometres across, was on course to slam into the populous area between the tourist hub of Cairns and Cardwell to the south.
Although the image does not reveal a visible eye, the storm is well-formed and also appears to be strengthening.
CastawayResort: yfrog. Supplied: Andrew Sittler Photo: Scott Torrens l and his children stand in their house and look to where their roof once was after Cyclone Yasi hit Mourilyan, south of Innisfail, on February 3, Cyclone Yasi tore through the area as a category five cyclone.
Tim Wimborne : Reuters Photo: A house is destroyed with only the toilet left standing at Mission Beach, south of Innisfail in north-east Queensland, on February 3, Cyclone Yasi crossed the coast as a destructive category five cyclone.
AFP: Paul Crock Photo: A banana plantation inundated with floodwaters is destroyed south of Innisfail in north Queensland on February 3, , after category five tropical cyclone Yasi.
Audience submitted: Jeannie Fulton Photo: Water gushes through the 'Bogey Hole' swimming hole - normally a clear stream with a gentle waterfall - at Chillagoe, km west of Cairns, on February 3, , after Cyclone Yasi crossed the coast. Australia's worst cyclone in a century devastated towns and left , people without power.
Australia's worst cyclone in a century devastated towns and left , people without power, but miraculously no deaths were reported as police scoured worst-hit areas. No deaths or serious injuries have been reported following Cyclone Yasi which struck land as a category five storm around midnight yesterday. The Queensland towns of Innisvail, Mission Beach, Tully and Cardwell where hit hardest by Yasi with authorities waiting for safer conditions to assess the full extent of the damage.
Yasi has been downgraded to a category two storm as it passes inland. The island took a direct hit from category five Cyclone Yasi in January but major repair work has yet to begin. Supplied: June Perkins. Further reading. Tropical cyclones explained Australia's worst cyclones Comparison of large cyclones Plan for a cyclone. External Link: Thousands shelter in Cairns shopping centre. Disaster brews as cyclone stalks north Residents urged to flee monster cyclone Flights sell out as cyclone exodus steps up North-west Queensland braces for cyclone impact.
From the archives: Cyclone Yasi live blog Cyclone Yasi: In their own words 'It's just too hard': Yasi leaves farmers reeling Despair and relief in cyclone's wake Massive cyclone leaves lives in tatters Man found dead in cyclone aftermath Cyclone babies born in Cairns, Innisfail 'Help is coming' as residents return to ruin. George was the most destructive cyclone to affect the Port Hedland region since Cyclone Joan in The Arnhem Land community of Maningrida, 35km from where Monica made landfall, was one of the hardest hit areas.
The storm and subsequent floods damaged about 10, buildings, of which about were totally destroyed. Helicopters delivered food and emergency supplies to several townships isolated by the floods. Thousands of people were left without work as a result, and a nationwide banana shortage saw the price of the fruit soar.
Cyclone Ingrid was unusual in that it caused widespread damage in two states and a territory. Five people died when large swells capsized their boat near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea. Cyclone Justin crossed the Queensland coast just north of Cairns on 22 March and moved inland before turning southeast and passing back out to sea. There was widespread damage to the region in and between Cairns and Townsville, caused by a combination of strong winds, heavy rain and storm surges.
In Australia, two people were killed — one in a landslide near Townsville and another electrocuted by a fallen power line at Innisfail. Cyclone Bobby travelled the length of the northwest Australian coastline, eventually making landfall near the Pilbara town of Onslow, northeast of Exmouth, just after midnight on 26 February.
More than mm of rain fell around Onslow, and flooding affected many communities throughout western and southern WA. One motorist drowned while attempting to cross a flooded creek, and seven other people died when two fishing trawlers sunk off the coast near Onslow. Though Orson was one of the most powerful cyclones ever to have struck WA, it moved so quickly that many communities were only exposed to its force for a relatively short period of time. Several buildings were harmed in the mining town of Pannawonica, while Karratha and Dampier escaped with minor damage.
Four Indonesian fishermen reportedly died in rough seas around Ashmore Island, off the northwest coast of Australia. When Cyclone Winifred crossed the Queensland coast south of Innisfail on 1 February, it was the most disastrous storm that northern Queenslanders had seen in over 14 years.
A Bureau of Meteorology report on the storm stated that the general public had a relatively poor understanding of tropical cyclones at the time. One elderly man died after being blown from his roof during the storm, one person drowned, and a teenage girl died from injuries caused by flying debris. The damage to crops and infrastructure extended from Cairns to Ingham, and was compounded by the flooding of the Herbert and Tully rivers.
Alby was a rare extra-tropical cyclone that caught residents of southwest WA off guard in April Very few cyclones reach so far south, but Alby served as a reminder that when they do, they are no less dangerous than their tropical counterparts. Alby never actually made landfall, but the hot winds that it brought fanned existing controlled blazes out of control. The fires collectively burnt through roughly , hectares of forest and farmland.
One witness recalled the winds were so strong that small crabs from the sea were blown in under her door. Although there was no loss of human life, graziers suffered heavy losses to livestock. When Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin on Christmas morning , it was a catastrophe that left little unscathed. Within weeks, three-quarters of the entire population had either chosen to leave or had been evacuated.
Many never returned. At least 65 lives were lost and Australian attitudes towards cyclones changed forever. Destruction in Darwin following Cyclone Tracy in
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