Cyclone Seroja Snapped Tree Limbs ‘Like Carrots’
The West Australian town of Kalbarri has suffered widespread damage in the wake of tropical cyclone Seroja, which tore across the midwest coast overnight.
Seroja made landfall south of the town, about 8 p.m. on Sunday, as a category three storm with wind gusts up to 170 km/h.
Kalbarri, which lies 580 kilometres north of Perth, is home to about 1,400 people.
“I’ve never experienced anything in my life like we experienced last night,” resident and caravan park manager Debbie Major told ABC television on Monday.
“It’s only a small town … half of it has been flattened.”
Tropical cyclone Seroja is expected to make landfall near Carnarvon on Sunday
A separate tropical low could develop cyclone intensity and combine with Seroja
The cyclones will dance as part of the Fujiwhara Effect, meteorologists said
A third tropical low is also developing near the Cocos Islands, north-west of WA
Evacuation orders were issued for much of the WA coast on Saturday morning
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