Ex-tropical cyclone Zelia causes 'significant' damage to De Grey station as remote communities evacuated
ABCHead to Emergency WA or the Bureau of Meteorology for the latest information, or tune to ABC Radio Pilbara. Pastoral stations in WA's north-west have been hit hard and people are being evacuated from remote communities as ex-tropical cyclone Zelia continues to dump heavy rain across the region. "At this stage, we've got no reports of major damage in Hedland and more importantly, no reports of injury or loss of life some of our pastoral stations have been hit hard," Mr Cook said. It weakened to below cyclone intensity in the early hours of Saturday, but Mr Cook warned remote communities were "not out of the woods yet" as an "enormous amount of rain" triggered widespread flood alerts across the Pilbara. "There's major flooding occurring across the De Grey River and its feeder rivers in the Pilbara region, and ongoing flood watches across almost all rivers in north-western parts of the state.
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