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Cyclone Marcia's fury in photos

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23rd Feb 2015 8:52 AM

Australia watched awe-struck as Cyclone Marcia's ferocity increased to a Category Five as she marched towards the Queensland coastline.

Topics: cyclone marcia queensland wildweather

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White sand covers the interior of the A-frame beach house at West Bay on Middle Percy Island.

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Cyclone Marcia has come and gone, but it left four residents on Middle Percy Island with a massive clean-up job.

Local residents Chris Proud and his sons Jye,5, and Zack,10, check out the debris piled up at the Granville Bridge.

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ABOVE: Cody Whiteman, of Fortrus Pastoral on the Wide Bay Hwy, took this photo of a massive tree that smashed into the deck of Bells Bridge on Saturday. RIGHT: The tree remained wedged in the decking as the floodwater receded.

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ROADS were gouged out and giant trees wedged into bridges, but the Gympie region took Tropical Cyclone Marcia in its stride.

A large Norfolk Pine was sheared off at the base in Yeppoon during Cyclone Marcia narrowly missing nearby buildings.

Researcher suggests Cyclone Marcia was a category 3, not 5

THE Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed the unique acceleration of Tropical Cyclone Marcia from Category 1 to 5 in record time.

DIGGING IN: Army reservists Gibson Carragher and Tim Higgins load sandbags during a disaster response exercise at Byron Barracks in Lismore.

100 soldiers from Townsville to help with Marcia clean up

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