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Cyclone Larry makes High Winds to lash Western Australia MIL/Agencies/Reuters, Mar 30, 2006. Perth - There is a severe storm, high winds blowing at the speed of 250 km per hour (150 mph) in northwest Australian coast forcing the authorities to evacuate thousands of willing people to safer places. The cyclone is so severe that it has shut oil and gas fields and upset the iron ore shipments. According to Roeburn regional council president Danielle Nazzari as spoken to Sky Television, "Most of the people are staying at homes, and some of them who wished to be evacuated, were shifted to safer places last night. They feel that the category of the storm is 'cyclone alley'. The storm (Glenda) is of four categories, one below the most powerful grade, and is moving slowly through an area known as "cyclone alley" which is regularly swept by storms at this time of year. This is the one, which the authorities apprehend. The authorities have declared a red alert to the Pilbara region, where more than 12,000 people are living. They said that it includes the area of Woodside Petroleum's A$14 billion (5.7 billion pounds) NorthWest Shelf liquefied natural gas project at Karratha. It was expected by the authorities to roar ashore within hours between the iron ore and tourism town of Karratha, about 1,550 km (950 miles) north of Perth, and nearby Onslow in the sparsely populated and ruggedly beautiful Pilbara region of Western Australia state, as reported by Reuters. Emergency workers feared it could be as destructive as Cyclone Larry, which destroyed homes and crops on Australia's northeastern coast 10 days ago, or Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the U.S. city of New Orleans last August. "This does have the potential to do what happened in the eastern states and what happened in America," State Emergency Services official Steve Cable told Australian television. "Everything is saturated, water is lying everywhere. Flooding is going to be a real problem," he said. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology also warned of dangerous flooding from abnormally high tides and damaging waves in a region already awash from five previous cyclones this season as per Reuters.
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