Cyclone Yasi wreaks havoc but no deaths

Northeast Australia bore the brunt of Mother Nature at its most spectacular, as one of the most powerful cyclones on record hit the state of Queensland. The winds tore off roofs, toppled power lines and caused widespread flooding.




But Cyclone Yasi, which packed a punch of winds of up to 300 kilometres per hour, did much less damage than had been feared and no deaths have been reported.




While Yasi was the size of Italy, it appeared to miss major towns in the sparsely populated state although it did cause extensive damage to the local sugar cane crop.
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[bobri289]

@HorseLoberr month, but had missed. Tracy was also moving at about 8 kilometers per hours, compared to yasi's 30 or so. The main reason Tracy was so much more devastating was due to lack of education...not because it was equally as powerful as Yasi, as that just isn't true.

[bobri289]

@HorseLoberr Cyclone tracy was less powerful that yasi, with gusts only up to around 240kph making it a category 4 system. Tracy caused so much devastation due to the rapid expansion of Darwin in the 20 years before cyclone Tracy and the fact that houses thee were not built to a category 4 standard. Many of the residents did ot prepare for Tracey due to their being little waring, that Christmas was the next day and that cyclone Selma had been forecast to hit Darwin earlier in the

[trooperzengin123]

y do they come up wit these shit cyclone names, y not CYCLONE YOUR FUCKED

[Dumbledore134]

:( I went to Queensland to help Queensland and it was Scary :(

[negooog]

bill murray at 0:51

[semtex84]

@SeeTimeRun391 Ever since Cyclone Tracy all buildings have had to built to Cat 3, most are built stronger tho.. Yasi didn't do as much damage as they expected because it turned at the very last hour and headed away from major cities and tore a few smaller ones in half.

[banner1835]

It looks from this video that there was no damage, one video said it was downgraded to a cat.1. Very happy Yasi didn't hit populated areas.Australia had enough to deal with.

[Penni70ful]

@mysty0 am kinda wondering if it wasnt as bad as Tracy why did everyone leave Cardwell and surrounding areas. Oh and you forgot to mention Larry as well he did a number on Innisfail .. also Darwin is a City not a small town think if Larry or Yasi had of hit Townsville or Cairns you would of seen more destruction than what Tracy caused to Darwin !!!