We know all about big blows, getting threats from several each year. Because we have a long coastline, only occasionally does a big city cop one, though both Townsville (big Yank base in WW2) and Darwin on the north coast of Australia were both flattened to varying degrees in separate cyclones. The floods associated with them tend to do more damage.
http://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/disasters/cyclones.asp