it hit the coast as a catagory 5 which was the same as Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans but it was lucky that it was only about 50km wide when it hit.
100's of miles of power poles either broken or blown down and farm after farm and orchard after orchard wiped out. One photo showed a 50 acre banana farm with all the trees broken off at ground level. Large modern tractor sheds which were cyclone rated blown, with tractors, across the paddocks plus homes flattened and buisnesses without roofs.
The good thing is that no lives were lost.
Here in Gympie we have had slightly harder then normal winds and a few showers as it was a long way north of us.
Cheers
Cliff
