Cyclone Fina leaves power cuts and debris as Northern Territory starts cleanup. Photo / Getty Images
Cyclone Fina leaves power cuts and debris as Northern Territory starts cleanup. Photo / Getty Images
Residents of Australia’s Northern Territory were clearing streets on Sunday after a damaging tropical cyclone that brought intense winds overnight, tearing up trees and traffic lights and cutting power.
Tropical Cyclone Fina loomed off the coast of the Northern Territory for several days before rapidly strengthening to a Category 3storm.
It swept in on Saturday night between Darwin and the sparsely populated Tiwi Islands – an archipelago about 80km off the coast – where wind gusts reached 110km/h.
Footage showed sheets of rain pouring from roofs during the peak of the cyclone, while huge trees toppled into backyards and roads.
A section of roof at the Royal Darwin Hospital collapsed, leaving bricks and debris littering a corridor floor.
