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Look back in terror: Yasi’s deep scars remain, a decade after our biggest storm
Tuesday February 02, 2021
Ten years since wreaking havoc across the state’s far north, Tropical Cyclone Yasi remains the biggest storm in Queensland’s history and the pain is still felt a decade on.
The street along the foreshore of Tully Heads at the mouth of the Tully River was devastated by the storm surge whipped up by Cyclone Yasi. Photo: ABC
The category five system spanned 650 kilometres and recorded gusts of up to 250 to 295 kilometres per hour when it crossed the coast at Mission Beach in the early hours of February 3, 2011.
The system lasted another four days and caused…
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