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No, I'm hundreds of miles to the south of it. Saw a report on TV, lots of fallen trees, flying roofing iron, people are being told to stay inside until the high winds pass, someone said 290klm an hour...seems a bit high to me. Area most affected is Innisfail, farming and sugar cane territory. Some property damage in Cairns.

Here's one report I got off Google:

Cyclone Larry devastates FNQ farms

Monday, 20/03/2006

The most powerful cyclone to cross the north Queensland coast in 20 years is continuing to cause havoc as it moves west.

The core of the category 5 Cyclone Larry crossed the coast near Innisfail, around 7:00am AEST, with wind speeds of 290 kilometres an hour.

Banana grower Naomi King says their property has taken a heavy battering.

"We've lost most of our trees, we've lost a fair bit of the car shed, we've lost another shed just over from our house and it looks like the iron on the lime shed just over the back of the house is lifting up too," she said.

"My brother and I are holding the handles to the French doors, because the bolts have busted out from the wind, but we've been holding them for the last hour and a half already."

I'll keep you posted...

Whoops! There goes the shed...

Larry destroys cyclone-proof shed
From: AAP
March 20, 2006
A FAR north Queensland resident has told of her shock at seeing her supposedly cyclone-proof shed destroyed by Cyclone Larry.

Kylie Burt, who lives on the Atherton Tablelands, says she watched from her house as the cyclone tore through her property after crossing the coast near Innisfail earlier today.
"We've got a 60-foot (18m shed which is a cyclone-proof, rating five, and we've lost the lot," she told the Seven network.

"The wind got under it, I gather, and it just lifted the roof off and now it's in my cattle paddock."

Ms Burt said she did not know if her cattle had survived the cyclone, as it was still too dangerous to leave the shelter of her home.

"(There are) trees down everywhere, there is debris flying through the air everywhere, it's just too dangerous to be outside," she said.

Oh no, not the bananas!

Cyclone devastates banana crop
From: AAP By Robin Pash
March 20, 2006
CYCLONE Larry has devastated Australia's banana industry, destroying fruit worth $350 million and leaving up to 4000 people out of work.

Australians now face a shortage of bananas and likely price rises after the cyclone tore through the heart of the nation's biggest growing region today.
Queensland produces about 95 per cent of Australia's bananas.

The Australian Banana Growers Council said the storm had wrecked the industry, ruining 200,000 tonnes of fruit.

"The banana crop in north Queensland has been decimated, probably between 90 and 100 per cent of the total crop is on the ground," council president Patrick Leahy said.

"Innisfail and Tully took the brunt of it, a large section of the industry on the tablelands is knocked out and the only section that seems to have come away with less damage is the Kennedy area.

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"That means better than 80 per cent of the total Australian crop is on the ground."
Mr Leahy said with total production estimated to be worth $380 million and $400 million for the year, the cyclone had destroyed as much as $350 million in produce.

It was the worst cyclone damage to crops he had seen in 16 years as a grower and the storm would have a huge and immediate impact on jobs.

"There's going to 3000 or 4000 unemployed within the next week," Mr Leahy said.

"All of our workers are not going to have a job because there's going to be no bananas to pick and pack...

http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,18534072-31037,00.html