Tropical Cyclone Narelle live updates: water off, power cuts likely as storm crosses Queensland coast

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Eerie feeling’ as water shut off and electricity to be lost in far north QueenslandFar north residents in the path of Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle say they have taken shelter as winds begin to swirl in the remote Cape York Communities.The wind has really started to pick up, you can hear a couple of things moving around outside.Until the wind started it was so still. It was raining but it was really still. That’s not like Coen, when it rains it pours and the wind moves about.In Coen there are a lot of old properties that have been through cyclones in the past, they are standing but they’re not cyclone rated by any means. Continue reading...