00:02Normally it's the sound of leaf blowers that are the problem for me, but it's the sound of chainsaws as
00:07Weeper continues the clean up.
00:10The picture that you can see here is essentially replicated right around the town.
00:14Big trees coming down, fences damaged, some light building damage as well, but for the most part this town got
00:21away with it.
00:22The assessment is still going on across more remote parts of far north Queensland to see exactly what damage has
00:28been done.
00:28Places where the assessments can only be done by air.
00:32And with a lot of debris around, at least in this place, the roads are now clear, but there's going
00:39to be a heck of a lot of clean up to come.
00:41The next steps for this part of far north Queensland really is just to finish the tidy up.
00:48Everything else seems back to normal, the electricity is reconnected, water is good to go, the airport is open, as
00:54are schools.
00:55So really it's a quick recovery from what was an incredibly dangerous system.
01:00Now the attention is turning, of course, to the territory with a heavy rainfall there and the rivers responding so
01:06quickly.
01:07And the big question, will we be talking about tropical cyclone Norel as a tropical cyclone once again as it
01:14gets over those warm waters off the north of WA?
01:18How much longer will tropical cyclone Norel be bothering us?
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