A Hastings man living almost in the eye of Cyclone Debbie is unable to be contacted, possibly because of a power outage.
Neville Chapman lives at Cannonvale, Airlie Beach, near where the eye of Cyclone Debbie was reported to have made landfall this afternoon.
But the website of power supply company Ergon Energy electricity supply in the Cannonvale area was cut because of cyclone damage more than 12 hours earlier at 10.18pm on Monday local time.
A late afternoon weather update said: "The centre of Debbie appears to be moving over Airlie Beach. This places the eye wall with winds close to 270km/h over Bowen while Airlie Beach should see calm and even sunny weather move in as the eye moves over - followed by equally damaging winds from the opposing direction after the centre passes through."
Bowen is 76km north of Airlie Beach by road, which is about 1100km from Brisbane.