With winds crying at up to 185 miles per hour, a vast cyclone made landfall in the predawn hours on Thursday along the shore of the already storm-battered state of Queensland, with extensive reports of property damage and power failures.
Thousands of citizens crowded into crisis shelters along the northeast coast on Wednesday looking for refuge from a storm that the National Weather Bureau had warned could be larger and "more life-threatening than any in Australian history. Witnesses told local news outlets of roofs being blown off and trees flattened as the cyclone moved inland. Power was out in more than 170,000 homes, according to Ergon Energy, the region's main function.
More than 400,000 citizens live in communities along the storm's 370-mile-long front, including in the cities of Cairns and Townsville, popular jumping-off sites for the Great Barrier Reef. As the storm approached on Wednesday, residents in low-lying coastal areas were urged to flee for higher ground.
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