It seems definite now that there is no loss of life, at least none has been reported so far. If you haven't been contacted, they may have too many things on their mind at moment, like shelter, food, water, sewage, power - severe infrastructure damage including mobile phone towers and even some land lines and exchange equipt and of course power poles has occurred.

Incidentally, more people in Aus die from subsequent flooding than actual cyclone. There was little flooding this time.

Some power has been restored, but there are still over 80,000 homes without power. Some power poles look more like knitting needles with tree bits woven into the lines.

I am puzzled by the "One lawmaker estimated lost revenues" bit - our 'lawmakers' are politicians, and they don't have a clue to estimating damage (even what THEY do!)...