50,000 homes without power after Western Australia storm

Nearly 50,000 homes in Australia’s western coast are still without power as it continues to be rattled by wild weather for the second day in a row, amid the rare event termed as a ‘once-in-a-decade’ storm. Western Australia has already experienced the wildest autumn weather in the past few years, as the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Mangga collided with a cold front and whipped up gusts of about 100km/h.