Cyclone Seroja leaves Kalbarri residents ‘shell-shocked’ and many without telecommunications, SES says

Residents of a West Australian holiday town remain “shell-shocked” after Cyclone Seroja carved a trail of destruction through the area.

About 70 per cent of Kalbarri’s buildings were damaged when the cyclone slammed into WA’s Mid West coast on Sunday night.

Northampton, to Kalbarri’s south-east, also bore the brunt of the cyclone.

The manager of Kalbarri’s State Emergency Service, Steve Cable, described the storm as frightening and extremely intense.

He said many locals had been left feeling anxious.

“So now it’s just clean-up. It’s all about people,” he said.