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A severe tropical cyclone is currently crossing Western Australia's Kimberley coastline, packing wind gusts of up to 170 kilometres per hour. Residents and emergency services across the sparsely populated region have spent the day preparing and are now bracing for impact.

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00:00Reinforcements arrive in Broome.
00:07Ready to deal with the aftermath of whatever severe tropical cyclone Hayley brings.
00:11There is a very high potential for damage. We are going to see structures that will be
00:16damaged by this event, unfortunately, and we've got people in place ready to respond
00:20as soon as the system passes.
00:22As SES and urban search and rescue teams got in position and ready,
00:26evacuation centres in Broome began to fill.
00:29Elders from the remote Indigenous community of Djarajan not taking any chances.
00:34It was windy and old but it stopped now and it's still more calm, yeah.
00:39They were a bit upset that they had to leave their houses but they know it's the right thing.
00:44While there's relief for those in the relative safety of Broome,
00:47there's nervousness from businesses directly in the path.
00:52The Signet Bay Pearl Farm, no stranger to severe weather, but it doesn't make it any easier.
00:58We're certainly well practiced at cyclone prep.
01:01I mean, we really spend five or six months a year dealing with anywhere between sort of
01:07four or five or six or seven of these coming close enough to us to actually pack everything away.
01:13What will be left when they return?
01:15Still unclear.
01:17Nope.
01:18No know установ After ague
01:31that has been challenged.
01:33The Signet Bay Pearl Farm is Becca.
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