‘Eerily silent’: Cape York residents batten down the hatches ahead of Tropical Cyclone Narelle’s arrival
by Joe Hinchliffe and Douglas Smith from World news | The Guardian on (#74BFB)
Residents of Coen and surrounding towns in far north Queensland spent Thursday sandbagging, stockpiling food and preparing for power outages ahead of possible category 5 storm
In some ways, it seemed a pleasant, wet season morning in the remote Aboriginal community of Coen in tropical far north Queensland on Thursday - and Sara Watkins was preparing for a sausage sizzle.
It's a day that you'd spend going fishing," she said.
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