Powerful Cyclone Devastates Farm Town
Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters, and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country’s eastern coast.
Damage from Cyclone Larry, a Category 5 storm with winds up to 180 mph, was expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Hardest hit was Innisfail, a farming city of 8,500 in northeastern Queensland state.
“It looks like an atomic bomb hit the place,” Innisfail Mayor Neil Clarke told Australian television.
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