Tens of thousands of homes and businesses lost power, buildings were battered and trees were uprooted as a vast stretch of the west Australian coast was whipped by a severe storm.
The Associated Press
No casualties were reported from what Acting Assistant Commissioner of Western Australia state’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services Jon Broomhall called a “a once-in-a-decade-type” storm system. The combined weather system lashed a 1,200-kilometer stretch of the west coast from Carnarvon to Cape Leeuwin and including the state capital, Perth, with winds gusting at more than 90 kilometers per hour overnight, Bureau of Meteorology manager Neil Bennett said.Heavy rains lashed 1,500 kilometers of coastline from the Margaret River winery region in the south to Exmouth in the north. The rain and 8-meter waves caused flooding along the coast and eroded beaches, Bennett said.
The storm was subsiding by Monday afternoon. Up to 65,000 homes and businesses had lost power at the height of the emergency. But power had been restored to all but 24,000 by Monday afternoon, Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan said.
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