Residents in Kalbarri are waking this morning feeling as if they have \u2018dodged a bullet\u2019. <\/p>\n
Ex-TC Narelle, which a few days ago was on track to directly hit the coastal town, instead passed further inland and spared residents a repeat of the destruction caused by cyclone Seroja in 2021, where 70 per cent the town\u2019s structures were damaged. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s rare for a cyclone to make it this far south along the WA coast, and Kalbarri and towns such as Geraldton, are not cyclone-prepared like places further north in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. <\/p>\n
Kalbarri residents were last night bracing for destructive winds and heavy rainfall, but this morning, one resident reported \u2018sleeping like a baby\u2019.<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Meteorology reports the strongest wind gust felt in the town overnight was 79km\/h, with 7.8mm of rain falling in the past 24 hours. <\/p>\n
Power in the area remains on, and the cyclone risk has this morning been reduced to an advice alert, meaning residents are free to leave their homes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Kalbarri are waking this morning feeling as if they have \u2018dodged a bullet\u2019. Ex-TC Narelle, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-569200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}