NT residents assess damage from Tropical Cyclone Megan after evacuation efforts fail
by Australian Associated Press and Emily Wind from World news | The Guardian on (#6KEHC)
Town of Borroloola was due to be evacuated before cyclone arrived but dangerous weather prevented aircraft from landing
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Tropical Cyclone Megan has been downgraded to a tropical low in Australia's north-east where remote communities are still cut off due to major flooding.
About 700 residents in the town of Borroloola faced the worst of the cyclone, which made landfall on the south-western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria on Monday afternoon as a category-three storm before weakening to a category one.
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