Cyclone yasi how many people were injured

In Cardwell, boats were piled on top of each other in the Port Hinchinbrook Marina. A storm surge there sent boats up to two blocks inland, ABC news reported. The devastation is phenomenal, like nothing I've ever experienced," said David Brook, the manager of a resort at Mission Beach, in the direct path of the cyclone. It's really hard to describe. All I could hear was the screeching of the wind.

Residents across the affected area are still being told to exercise a great deal of caution and evacuation centres remain open. Cyclone Yasi has been downgraded to a category two storm as it continues to cross north-eastern Australia. It is now heading towards the town of Isa, in the far west of Queensland. In pictures: Cyclone Yasi. Your stories: 'We were lucky'. Yasi and Katrina compared. Bryant: Bligh makes her mark. Cyclone's predicted track.

BBC Weather: Interactive map. 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.

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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.

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More than , people live in the storm's path. The stretch, popular with tourists, includes the Great Barrier Reef. The regional capital of Cairns, gateway to the reef, escaped the worst of the storm and suffered little infrastructure damage. Ahead of the cyclone hitting land, concerns about the storm had helped push sugar prices to a year high in New York. Cyclone Yasi was weakening as it moved across the Queensland outback region Thursday.