CAIRNS, Australia: Disaster-response teams fanned out across northeastern Australia on Thursday, counting the cost of a tropical cyclone that flooded major highways, uprooted trees, and left 40,000 without power.

Coastal regions were battered by damaging winds and swamped by flooded rivers as Tropical Cyclone "Jasper" barreled in off the Coral Sea on Wednesday evening.

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