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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

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

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  • Scenes of devastation from giant cyclone Yasi

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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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