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Residents in the Kimberley town of Derby have spent the day cleaning up after Tropical Cyclone Luana crossed the coast on Saturday. Authorities say the damage was mostly limited to fallen trees and are now monitoring remote communities for flooding as the storm - now downgraded to a tropical low - moves inland.

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00:00After a night of wild winds, heavy rain and power cuts, the clean up begins. Derby residents
00:11woke on Sunday to find uprooted trees and toppled fences.
00:15I think we've got away with it a lot. A lot of other people in town had a bit more worser
00:22cases.
00:23Trees down in the backyard, it got so soaked, they've literally just fallen over and the
00:27roots are sticking up.
00:28Howling, winds, noisy, just like a train, but a non-stop train. And at one stage there
00:36I thought, stop, I don't want this noise anymore.
00:38Remote communities on the Dampier Peninsula were impacted first as the cyclone crossed
00:44the coast as a Category 2 system on Saturday afternoon. Authorities had more than ten calls
00:49for help. Local prisoners helping clear fallen trees in Derby.
00:54Ex-tropical cyclone Luana dumped more than 200 millimetres of rain in some areas, with authorities
01:01predicting more to come over the next two days. The focus now turning to inland communities
01:07vulnerable to flooding.
01:09Everyone's pretty used to this sort of weather this time of year and so are well stocked
01:13and have had their continued supplies coming in. But as we see the weather system through
01:17the week, there's potential for persistent thunderstorms and rainfall. So we'll just
01:22watch that and as required people can reach out and seek support.
01:25Residents and tourists are being urged to take care on the roads and reconsider their travel.
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