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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/no-deaths-after-australia-cyclone.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Helby Haines walks with her grandchildren past twisted roofing material strewn on the street in Tully, Australia (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-no-deaths-after-australia-cyclone.jpg" alt="Helby Haines walks with her grandchildren past twisted roofing material strewn on the street in Tully, Australia (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>One of the most powerful storms recorded in Australia pulled houses apart and snapped power poles as it ripped across already flood-sodden Queensland state, leaving authorities relieved that no one was killed.</p>
<p>Officials had issued days of increasingly dire warnings, and said lives were spared because people followed instructions to flee to evacuation centres or bunker themselves at home in dozens of cities and towns in Cyclone Yasi&#8217;s path on the north-east coast.</p>
<p>Hundreds of houses were destroyed or seriously damaged, and the homes of thousands more people are barely liveable until the wreckage is cleared, officials said.</p>
<p>The storm was as powerful as forecasters predicted &#8211; ferocious winds up to 170mph at the core, flood-inducing rain and tidal surges that sent waves crashing ashore two blocks into seaside towns.</p>
<p>It was not as deadly as expected, although several small towns directly under Yasi&#8217;s eye were devastated, hundreds of millions of dollars of banana and sugar cane crops smashed and power to more than 180,000 homes severed.</p>
<p>Yasi crossed the coast around midnight at the most-destructive category five rating, and the swirling storm pattern immediately began weakening once it was over land. It was still strong enough to hold a category one cyclone rating 500 miles inland late on Thursday where it was threatening to cause flooding in the Outback town of Mount Isa.</p>
<p>The disaster zone was north of Australia&#8217;s worst flooding in decades, which swamped an area in Queensland state the size and Germany and France combined and killed 35 people during weeks of high water until last month.</p>
<p>But the storm added to the state&#8217;s woes and is sure to add substantially to the estimated 5.6 billion Australian dollars (£3.5 billion) in damage since late November.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will meet the damages bill from the federal budget. It will require cutbacks in other areas, there is no point sugar-coating that,&#8221; prime minister Julia Gillard said in Canberra. The government has already announced a special tax nationwide to help pay for the earlier flooding.</p>
<p>Queensland premier Anna Bligh said several thousand people would be temporarily homeless due to the storm, and Red Cross Australia and local governments were working on registering people in need and finding places to house them, including among volunteers.</p>
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