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Cyclones in Australia have brought the campy film Sharknado to life, with residents in Lennox Head in New South Wales waking up Friday to the sight of a shark washed up on the beach after a stormy night.

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A photo of the shark made the rounds on Australian TV and on social media Friday in the aftermath of Cyclone Marcia and Cyclone Lam, which battered the country’s east and north coasts and caused widespread property damage, as well as flooding and power outages in some communities.

Victor Leto, who posted the photo of the big fish on Facebook, said it was about four feet in length and likely of the dusky shark species.

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Despite the ominous shark experience, Lennox Head, located just south of Brisbane, appears to have avoided the worst of the damage as the country grappled with two separate powerful storms hitting almost simultaneously.

“It is very rare to have two severe tropical cyclones making landfall on the same day,” Richard Wardle, Queensland Weather Services manager, said on a conference call Friday. “Very rare indeed.”

Cyclone Marcia, which hit Queensland as a category 5 storm with winds gusting up to 285 kilometres an hour, left a trail of destruction from the coastal town of Yeppoon to Rockhampton further inland. The powerful winds uprooted trees, ripped roofs of houses and left thousands without power. According to Australia’s 9 News, there were also emergency evacuations in the towns of Jambin and Googiven after automatic floodgates opened at a nearby dam.

Cyclone Lam, which crossed the Northern Territory coast as a category 4 system, has since been downgraded to a category 1 storm. While it severed some power lines and caused a state of emergency in the Top End part of the state, Lam’s damage was relatively limited.

Although both cyclones had weakened by late Friday, officials warned residents of coastal communities to beware of heavy rains and high tides. Fortunately, there have been no deaths or injuries as a result of the storms.

With files from Bloomberg