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We’ve had some people asking about the situation at De Grey station, which has been battered with heavy wind and rain.

DFES district officer Paul Potsma said there have been reports of flooding an inundation, but no sign of any major damage so far.

He said people concerned about loved ones can call13 DFES (13 3337).

Mark Bettini, who manages De Grey station, posted on Facebook to let people know they "made it through ok".

"We have had a fair bit of damage but we are also very lucky at the same time," Mr Bettini wrote. 

We’ve had another update from the ground in Karratha, with DFES district officer Paul Potsma saying Tropical Cyclone Zelia is starting to impact Marble Bar.

The emergency warning area now includes Warralong to Marble Bar, with people in this area urged to shelter in place.

The warning level for people in areas where the cyclone has passed has been downgraded from emergency to watch and act.

Tropical Cyclone Zelia could be downgraded to a category two system by 11pm, and further reduced to category one by 5am tomorrow.

Best-known as one of Australia’s hottest towns, Marble Bar is now set to cop the brunt of Cyclone Zelia as it tracks inland.

Baz Harris runs the Pilbara town’s community resource centre, and says the weather has intensified throughout the afternoon.

But he’s holding up ok.

“Very well, considering it’s biblical,” he told Ivo Da Silva on ABC Pilbara.

“We’re starting to get into the thick of it right now – we’ve just had a tree come down in the back yard.”

But he said the locals are looking after each other, including sandbagging throughout the week and sheltering those who’d suffered damage in the storm.

“Everyone has packed up what they need to – you have to suck it up and hunker down," Mr Harris said.

The cyclone comes in the wake of flooding and several severe “micro-bursts” – tornado-like storms – which have battered the town in recent weeks.

Port Hedland residents are breathing a tentative sigh of relief after a tense couple of days.

Cyclone Zelia was downgraded from category five to category four as it crossed the coast about 60km east of the mining town.

It was downgraded to a category three system just after 4pm.

But emergency services say the danger is not over, with intense rain posing a flooding risk.

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DFES says they are hoping to lift the emergency warning covering Port Hedland soon, but are urging people to stay put until they do.

Incident Controller Will Blackshaw told ABC Regional Drive that crews were assessing the situation in Port Hedland, and would lift the warning when it was safe to do so.

“We’ve had some reports of damage, and a lot of people from the evacuation centre will still need to check,” he says.

“But there’s no reports of serious damage yet.”

With Marble Bar now under an emergency warning, he urged residents there to shelter in place.

With the town still recovering from recent flooding, he says DFES has significant resources in the area.

“Marble Bar is going to cop some really big gusts,” he says.

“We’ve had crews around talking to people in the community there.

“Everyone knows what’s coming, and they should know what to do.”

Port Hedland resident Freddie waited out Zelia’s passage alongside his good mate Josh, their dogs and several newly-born puppies.

“My old man was here as well, but he’s gone to check on his house,” he told Peter Barr on ABC Regional Drive.

In a similar fashion to other locals around Hedland, he’s aware of only minor damage.

“But there’s still a bit of carnage,” he said.

In Freddy’s case, he faced an agonising wait seeing whether a tree out the front of his house would collapse on his boat.

“I had a tree out the front nearly land on my boat, which was freaking me out for the whole time,” he said.

“I was waiting and watching it for the whole cyclone trying to work out which way it was going to go.

“I should have ripped the whole thing out of the ground, but because it’s a company house I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to.”

A Hedland resident for 14 years, he said Tropical Cyclone Rusty was still the wildest storm he’d experienced.

Things are looking positive at Port Hedland International Airport, where CEO Hayley Vale says little impact was seen.

“Whilst we’ve got a few trees down, some localised flooding in our entry into the actual airport we have come, we are hoping, relatively unscathed,” she told ABC Regional Drive.

“We are lucky we have got a relatively new terminal, we have had some water ingress into it that we can see but nothing major.

“We should be operational by the time that Virgin and Qantas want to resume their flights back into Port Hedland.”

Ms Vale says flights are cancelled for tomorrow, but the airport is hoping to resume services with Qantas and Virgin on Sunday.

The cyclone has uprooted many trees across Port Hedland. 

These images show how even mature trees could not cope with the gale-force winds that pummeled the town on Friday. 

Pilbara Ports says the ports of Dampier and Varanus Island have been re-opened. 

"Pilbara Ports has undertaken inspections of navigation aids, channels and berths and has confirmed safe operations can resume," it said.

"Pilbara Ports is liaising with terminal and vessel operators and stakeholders to plan the resumption of shipping."

It is still unclear when the Port of Port Hedland will be open again.