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Aid delivered to Australia cyclone area
Mar 20 2006 11:49PM (CT)
INNISFAIL, Australia (AP) - Soldiers carried aid to the cyclone-shattered town of Innisfail Tuesday as residents picked through streets littered with rubble and mangled roofs destroyed by one of Australia's most powerful cyclones in decades.
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Katrina taught Aussies how to handle storm
Mar 20 2006 5:15PM (CT)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The emergencies were startlingly similar: a huge, swirling storm bearing down on coastal areas with frightening inevitability. Within a few hours of the most powerful cyclone in decades hitting Australia's northeastern coast Monday, state and federal governments had declared a state of emergency, prepared Black Hawk helicopters to run rescue missions and announced cash payouts for victims.
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