Cyclone Narelle live updates: Severe storm crosses WA coast as regional towns face devastating damage

One West Aussie has been left scrambling to get to Exmouth to assess the damage to their property after cyclone Narelle battered the town, forking out thousands to fly up there.

Ms Sanders claimed earlier in the week a flight from Perth to Exmouth cost $359, but when she looked at what it would cost on Saturday, the prices had surged to $1200 for a one way flight at 12.35pm.

ly they have early morning flights so they’re obviously just putting that one flight on at lunchtime because it will be safe by then. And $1200, there’s nothing you can do about it it’s just what you have to do. There’s literally no other way to do this,” she said.

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BoM has updated cyclone Narelle’s tracking map, showing the destructive disasters likely path for Friday headed into Saturday.

The eye of the storm is currently passing through Carnarvon and will make its way through the Gascoyne region as it tracks towards Denham.

Water Corporation has advised residents bunkered down in Exmouth and Onslow to limit their non-essential water use.

It comes as emergency services work diligently to repair infrastructure damaged by cyclone Narelle.

Exmouth will experience low water pressure and see potential interruptions overnight due to a power outage affecting the town’s two borefields.

While Onslow has ongoing repairs to water mains that were damaged, impacting supply to a large water storage tank.

Helpful ways residents can limit water use and support crews include:

• Turning off garden reticulation;
• Avoid hosing down pavement and driveways;
• Keeping showers to four minutes and skip baths;
• Avoid using water-heavy appliances such as washing machines;
• Using a plug in the sink to capture water for re-use.

A fallen tree has forced multiple lanes to be closed on a busy Perth highway on Friday afternoon.

The tree came down on Great Eastern Highway eastbound at Bilgoman Road in Hovea, causing heavy congestion in the area.

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The severe tropical cyclone Narelle has flexed her muscles, ripping tall trees out of the ground and flooding streets in Karratha.

Footage shared to Facebook show devastating scenes, with roads blocked off by fallen trees while the damage is expected to only get worse.

The scenes further stress importance to listen to Emergency WA’s calls to shelter indoors.

BoM has announced that tropical cyclone Narelle has been downgraded to category 2.

Onslow to Exmouth have been added to the cancelled zone, bringing relief to the area after copping the brunt of Narelle’s thrashing.

Despite being in the cancelled zone, residents in Onslow are urged to shelter indoors.

Cyclone Narelle’s punishment on WA’s regional towns continues to apply pressure on locals.

With one TikTokker updating followers on the damage their bathroom has sustained from the storm, blowing the roof of their house and creating a less-than-ideal skyline.

Huge rainfall in the Perth metropolitan area has forced Saturday’s Ascot race programme off, meaning dramatic consequences for WA’s best three-year-olds.

The main WA racing fixture for the week was sent back to next Wednesday late on Friday afternoon after positive initial track readings that morning had given a prognosis for the meeting to go ahead.

But persistently sour weather dampened expectations and Racing WA made the difficult final conclusion at 4pm to call it off.

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State Emergency Services have received calls from across WA over the past 24 hours.

They’ve fielded 117 calls for assistance in the Perth metro area today alone, all for water ingress as the rain keeps coming.

In the Pilbara, 42 calls have come in since yesterday, with 23 of those from Exmouth alone.

A few of those calls were for partial roof damage, with the remainder for other structural damage, downed trees and water ingress.

And in the Mid West, there have been 16 calls since yesterday with more likely to come.

Most of those calls were sandbag requests, as well as some for roof damage and water ingress.

No injuries have been reported, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services said.