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A man walks on a remaining piece of road crossing the river that links Saint Louis de la Reunion with Saint Pierre on Jan. 4, near Saint Louis, on the French island of La Reunion, following the passing of cyclone Dumile. Winds of up to 110 miles per hour and torrential rain caused extensive damage to the electricity network after cyclone Dumile passed within 56 miles of the island's west coast.
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Local resident Pita Turgagaviti clears away branches from a tree that collapsed on top of a car shelter outside a house in Laucala Bay Road near Suva, Fiji on December 17, 2012 as a monster cyclone, Cyclone Evan, threatened the Pacific nation with "catastrophic damage" after causing devastation in Samoa.
By NBC News staff and wire reports — More than 3,500 people evacuated to emergency shelters in Fiji as the biggest cyclone in 20 years swept across the Pacific island nation on Monday, three days after the storm killed four people and destroyed thousands of homes in nearby Samoa.
Tourist resorts on many of Fiji's palm-fringed islands have been evacuated and authorities warned people to remain under shelter as Tropical Cyclone Evan battered the country, blowing over trees and destroying houses. Read the full story.
Thousands of residents in Fiji and Samoa are in evacuation centers due to the devastating rain and wind gusts of Cyclone Evan battering the island nations. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
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A freight train is seen washed off the Edith Creek crossing near the Australian town of Katherine on Dec. 27, 2011 after flood waters from cyclone Grant inundated vast areas of the Northern Territory. Storms linked to ex-tropical cyclone Grant caused flash flooding across the remote outback which washed the 33-wagon iron ore train off a bridge and swept slabs of roadway from the Stuart Highway.
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Greville Blank surveys his destroyed home and debris in the devastation left by Cyclone Yasi in the far north Queensland seaside township of Tully Heads, Australia on Friday, Feb. 4.
CARDWELL, Australia — Australia marshaled 4,000 troops and sent a supply ship with tons of food to its cyclone-stricken northeast coast Friday, as awe-struck residents in wrecked towns confronted debris that included boats tossed into yards.
Authorities confirmed the first death from the storm that slammed into the coast early Thursday and said a search was under way for two missing people.
Cyclone Yasi flattened dozens of homes and ripped roofs and walls from dozens more. It cut power supplies in two regional cities and laid waste to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of banana and sugar cane crops.
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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.
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A local resident photographs a damaged home on the outskirts of Innisfail on Feb. 3, 2011 in Innisfail, Australia. So far no deaths or serious injuries have been reported following Cyclone Yasi which struck land as a category five storm around midnight yesterday.
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This overview shows boats previously moored in the Hinchenbrook Marina lying smashed after catastrophic winds and storm surge caused by Cyclone Yasi in Cardwell on Feb. 3, 2011.
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Vehicles queue to cross a flooded section of the Bruce Highway bordered by banana plantations devastated when Cyclone Yasi tore through Tully on Feb. 3, 2011.
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An aerial view shows homes destroyed in Tully, North Queensland, Australia, on 03 Feb. 3, 2011, as a result of category five tropical cyclone Yasi.
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Two women survey the damage in Tully, Australia, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. The most powerful storm in a century ripped across Australia's northeast coast early Thursday, blasting apart houses, laying waste to banana crops and leaving boats lying in the streets of wind- and wave-swept towns.
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Fallen trees are seen laying on their side after the passing of Cyclone Yasi on February 3, 2011 in Townsville, Australia. So far no deaths or serious injuriees have been reported following Cyclone Yasi which struck land as a category five storm around midnight yesterday. The Queensland towns of Innisvail, Mission Beach, Tully and Cardwell where hit hardest by Yasi with authorities waiting for safer conditions to assess the full extent of the damage. Yasi has been downgraded to a category two storm as it passes inland.
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