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When news broke in the fall of 2017 that Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm, was bound to make landfall, Platt and his colleagues were terrified.

The storm had weakened by the time it made landfall near Brisbane on Saturday night, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday warned locals of the continued wild weather and risks from flooding.

As the storm has edged closer to landfall, nearly 1,000 schools have closed, public transport has been suspended and airports are shut.

Four million people are in the firing line of the region's first tropical cyclone in more than half a century, which is expected to make landfall on Saturday.

The cyclone is expected to make landfall as a category two system on Saturday morning.