Australia is on high alert. Some 300,000 people in the northeast have fled their homes and gathered in shelters to await the arrival of a cyclone with a frontage of 650 kilometers wide with winds that can reach 280 kilometers per hour. Is expected to make landfall with Category 5 on the Queensland coast at 10 pm (14.00 GMT), between the cities of Cairns and Innisfallen.
It is estimated that their strength is on par with Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. "We are facing a storm of catastrophic proportions," said Anna Bligh, president of the state of Queensland after Cyclone Yasi was elevated to a category five storm. The weather service says Australia will be the strongest cyclone ever beaten the country.
"This storm is going to be terrible and potentially very, very damaging," said Bligh. The biggest threat may come from the tides along the coast due to hit the sea when the tide is high. "The next 24 hours will be scary for people living in the danger zone," said Bligh. Mines, railroads and coal ports have closed, while officials warned that the storm could enter the hundreds of miles inland, reaching rural and mining areas are still struggling to recover after months of devastating floods.
There are few stores open, universities have been protected with sandbags and boards on windows, and even the military are rushing to get out of the area to their ships and planes on time. Three-meter waves on the coast national weather service expected to shortly before the cyclone, the coast will be hit by waves up to nearly three meters high caused by the strong wind, so that the authorities have asked residents to collect their belongings and to go to high places as a precautionary measure.
The army evacuated yesterday to about 40,000 people from low-lying coastal areas of Queensland. It is expected that strong winds will increase about 5 meters under water level. Recent special flights airlines took off in early hours of Wednesday with the passage, consisting of tourists and residents who wanted to leave Cairns and Townsville before closing aeropurtos-in full.
In the town of Townsville, about 60,000 people, a third of its inhabitants have left their homes for fear of the storm, estimated to affect in the early hours some 400,000 inhabitants of the coast. Throughout the day, police went through the neighborhoods of both cities to recommend house to house residents who leave home to seek refuge.
Earlier, military helicopters transported dozens of patients who were admitted to hospital in Cairns, an air base in the interior. The most virulent of Australia cyclone The weather service estimated the strength of Yasi is greater than that of Cyclone Larry, which in 2006 destroyed houses and shops in the northeast coast and caused damage worth billions of dollars.
Another cyclone, called Anthony and category 2, crossed on Monday the same region of Queensland with gusts up to 130 kilometers, but caused minor damage. Cyclone Yasi comes to Australia just weeks after the worst floods in U.S. history and became an unprecedented catastrophe, with 35 deaths and economic damage amounted to more than 3,800 million euros.
In total, the floods of last January caused more than 200,000 homeless. 
It is estimated that their strength is on par with Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. "We are facing a storm of catastrophic proportions," said Anna Bligh, president of the state of Queensland after Cyclone Yasi was elevated to a category five storm. The weather service says Australia will be the strongest cyclone ever beaten the country.
"This storm is going to be terrible and potentially very, very damaging," said Bligh. The biggest threat may come from the tides along the coast due to hit the sea when the tide is high. "The next 24 hours will be scary for people living in the danger zone," said Bligh. Mines, railroads and coal ports have closed, while officials warned that the storm could enter the hundreds of miles inland, reaching rural and mining areas are still struggling to recover after months of devastating floods.
There are few stores open, universities have been protected with sandbags and boards on windows, and even the military are rushing to get out of the area to their ships and planes on time. Three-meter waves on the coast national weather service expected to shortly before the cyclone, the coast will be hit by waves up to nearly three meters high caused by the strong wind, so that the authorities have asked residents to collect their belongings and to go to high places as a precautionary measure.
The army evacuated yesterday to about 40,000 people from low-lying coastal areas of Queensland. It is expected that strong winds will increase about 5 meters under water level. Recent special flights airlines took off in early hours of Wednesday with the passage, consisting of tourists and residents who wanted to leave Cairns and Townsville before closing aeropurtos-in full.
In the town of Townsville, about 60,000 people, a third of its inhabitants have left their homes for fear of the storm, estimated to affect in the early hours some 400,000 inhabitants of the coast. Throughout the day, police went through the neighborhoods of both cities to recommend house to house residents who leave home to seek refuge.
Earlier, military helicopters transported dozens of patients who were admitted to hospital in Cairns, an air base in the interior. The most virulent of Australia cyclone The weather service estimated the strength of Yasi is greater than that of Cyclone Larry, which in 2006 destroyed houses and shops in the northeast coast and caused damage worth billions of dollars.
Another cyclone, called Anthony and category 2, crossed on Monday the same region of Queensland with gusts up to 130 kilometers, but caused minor damage. Cyclone Yasi comes to Australia just weeks after the worst floods in U.S. history and became an unprecedented catastrophe, with 35 deaths and economic damage amounted to more than 3,800 million euros.
In total, the floods of last January caused more than 200,000 homeless.
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