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Traffic is stopped on a road through a submerged and detroyed banana plantation near the Queensland town of Tully, Australia on February 3, 2011 after Cyclone Yasi passed through the northern part of the state overnight. Australia's biggest cyclone in a century shattered entire towns, pummelling the coast and churning across the country, terrifying locals but remarkably causing no known fatalities. About 75 percent of Australia's banana supply was estimated to have been affected, while damage to sugarcane crops was put at roughly 500 million USD.

Road to nowhere in Australia following cyclone Yasi

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