A town in Western Australia is in clean-up mode after a terrifying tornado over the weekend.
A 60-metre-wide twister with winds of more than 160km/h tore through Bunbury on Friday afternoon, leaving 100 homes destroyed or damaged.
In a matter of seconds, the fury of Mother Nature turned an ordinary afternoon into a terrifying ordeal.
Hurricane-force winds gathered power as they ripped through Bunbury in Western Australia.
"Quite shocking - you see it in America, you don't think it's going to happen in your backyard," one local told Newshub.
For Elaine, the terror was even closer than her backyard.
Her home was ripped apart with her inside, and she tried moving to another room.
"I stood in this door frame and all this just peeled down around me," she told local media.
Next door her neighbour's verandah flew away.
"It was going 'boom boom boom voom', just a vacuum," the man said.
But he admitted he was more worried about Elaine.
"I thought she was dead," he explained.
A 300kg beam from her home landed just 30 metres away.
"I knew then how lucky I was, I mean it could have picked me up and threw me in the trees as well you know - it's scary," she said.
There was no warning the weather would turn like it did.
"Even though everything's been destroyed I've woken up thankful and glad... I probably shouldn't be here," Elaine said.
