Severe flooding hits Australian states amid cyclone

‘Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from towns in two Australian states as authorities warned Friday there could be deaths from severe flooding caused by a powerful tropical cyclone.
Category-four Cyclone Debbie hit northeastern Australia on Tuesday between Bowen and Airlie Beach in Queensland State, ripping up trees, washing boats onto land and causing widespread damage.
Debbie was downgraded to a tropical low as it tracked southeast, but continued to pack damaging gusts and dump huge amounts of rain all the way down the eastern coast to New South Wales (NSW) State, south of Queensland, and Sydney.
Lismore near the NSW coast was hard-hit, with the State Emergency Service (SES) warning of three-meter high flood levels in the town.’
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