Wild weather blacks out 300,000 properties in Australia

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Wild weather blacks out 300,000 properties in Australia

After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone generating heavy weather across the region, Alfred weakened into a tropical depression before making landfall (AFP)

A general view shows a deserted street as floodwaters rise toward the levee walls holding back the Wilsons River in Lismore's downtown (AFP)

Floodwaters reach the levee walls holding back the Wilsons River in Lismore (AFP)

Gusts and torrential rain have blacked out more than a quarter of a million properties and swamped parts of Australia's east coast, officials said Sunday, with one driver confirmed dead and a dozen troops injured in the wild weather (AFP)

A general view shows erosion at Miami Beach after the sand was washed away during Tropical Cyclone Alfred on the Gold Coast (AFP)

Wild weather blacks out 300,000 properties in Australia

police officer walks past rescue boats as floodwaters approach the levee walls holding back the Wilsons River in Lismore (AFP)

Source: AFP

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