Alert – Unlucky moment an elderly woman with a walking stick is barrelled over by a flying cardboard box as cyclone bomb wreaks havoc on Sydney and surrounding areas

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Millions of Aussies are in the path of a ‘bomb cyclone’ which has formed off ‘s east coast.

Severe weather warnings have been issued for NSW, eastern Victoria and southeast Queensland as the explosive ‘cyclone’ has been confirmed off the coast and heads inland.