WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 6 March 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:07.440 Skying in center. This is Paul Murray Live. Get I mate, 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.400 and welcome to Redcliffe, which is to the north of Brisbane. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.200 We are on the ground as tropical cyclone our Fred 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.919 is beginning to start to show what the next couple 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.079 of days is going to be like in southeast Queensland 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.400 and in northern New South Wales. In a moment I'll 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:28.240 be joined by reporters all over this region with the 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.960 very latest information for people who are in the area 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.720 and obviously what you need to know around the rest 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.600 of the country. Now, let me give you an idea 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.800 of what today has been like in and around Brisbane. Frankly, 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.000 it's been dare I say, a little bit like Melbourne's 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.800 so the four seasons in one day it was blue skies. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.280 This morning it was pretty warm. It's been humid, very 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.360 still at times, and then there would be big bursts 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.440 of wind and then rain. That here in Redcliffe has 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.279 been the story of the past couple of hours. Let 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.000 me try to give you an idea of where we 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.399 are and where tropical Cyclone Alfred is right now. Put 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.440 simply two hundred and fifty clicks that way out to 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.080 sea is where Alfred is currently moving only at a 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.680 speed of about three kilometers an hour. So do your 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.840 sums and then you can start to work out about 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.640 exactly when the moment is going to be that people 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.280 have been planning for and many are fearing. Now. The 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.000 expectation was that we will be dealing with something at 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.640 the early part of Friday morning. That moved to Friday afternoon, 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.240 and at this stage the latest information from the Bureau 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.280 of Meteorology is that the worst of it will be 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.959 in full force by the very early hours of Saturday morning. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:40.640 Now we're going to be here through the whole thing 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.120 to give you the information. And also Queensland's been so 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.720 kind to me, so kind to us, so it's time 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.200 to be here with them. The preparations that have been 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.920 taking place all day are honestly pretty amazing to see. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.920 Now there's a couple of myths that I want to 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.800 deal with just before stuff starts to ramp up over 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.800 the next couple of days. There is food in Brisbane. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.440 I was told on our way up here that we 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.600 had to bring food. We had to bring bottles of water. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.840 Know there is plenty of it. The panic buying that 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.280 may will have happened in coals and woolies. Yes, that 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.160 is a thing. However, if you want to find a 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.160 bottle of water, there's a service station almost every few 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.239 hundred meters, so there's plenty of ways to keep yourself going. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.440 But also the spirit of Queensland. Is this something we'll 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.200 talk about, no doubt on the other side of this 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.519 as well as another mud army will form to clean 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.560 whatever is going to be the issues here of this 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.480 tropical cyclone. But today I have the opportunity to go 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.480 and see what with my own eyes what a lot 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.200 of us have been seeing for the past couple of days, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.840 and that's long patient queues of people trying to find sandbags, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.800 trying to find sandbags to make sure that when the 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.040 waters start to move, and remember storm surges are suggesting 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.280 that we could be up over one point two meters, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.120 particularly down around the Gold Coast right now. Is that 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.440 people want to make sure that the war, when it 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.919 inevitably starts moving, doesn't go underneath the door into the 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.359 garage all of the little issues. And that's why people 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.200 have been lining up for days literally hundreds of thousands 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.880 of sandbags. Now, this operation is one that I've got 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.880 to say is one of the most orderly I've ever seen. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.320 Now today most of the schools were shut in Southeast Queensland. 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.480 Today many people adhered the advice to work from home. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.919 But this was our experience of being able to see 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.920 people getting ready for what's going to be a big 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.600 couple of days. We don't know what's coming, but what's 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.280 your feeling and preparedness for it. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.080 I think we're well prepared, Like everyone's still anxious to 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:41.920 see how it. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.920 Is, and the cyclone slowed down a bit, so I 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:46.880 think we're ready. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.360 So vincent. We know that you're here to help dad 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.120 and there's a cyclone coming, But how good is getting 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.120 today and tomorrow off school? 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:57.520 Very well? 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.600 I've seen plenty of things come and go in this 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.440 part of the world. How are you feeling ahead of 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.160 this one? Be worried about this? 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:12.600 Back in twenty twenty had that rain event and I 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.159 got watered downstairs in a high set. So yeah, so 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.040 I want to make sure it's all seeing bagged up today. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.119 And I hope you don't mind me asking. But after 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.080 going through those experiences, are you insured not insured? Is 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.719 it hard? I mean, what's it like to try to 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:28.560 stay on top of that? 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.680 Yeah, it's always gone up the premium. So yeah, so 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.960 they got chess. So it's not much you can do. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.559 What's your message to everyone about the next couple of days, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:41.400 how to get through it? 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:46.120 Yeah, just stay with your family, button down and batton 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.479 down and we'll get through it. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:53.240 We're Queenslanders. Sandbags sandbags sandbags. There have been more than 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.560 four hundred thousand that have been taken up by the 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.560 good people of Southeast Queensland. Now, what is diff about 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.039 the way they do it in Brisbane is that that 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.520 is the responsibility of the local council. Brisbane City Council, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.599 of course, represents an entire metropolitan area and in the past, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.920 at twenty four hours they have already handed out more 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.560 sandbags than they did in the significant floods of teen 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.200 years ago. What is also incredible here is that you've 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.520 got people that are picking them up not just for 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.320 their own family, but for their neighbors as well. How's 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.040 the preparation going, Yeah, not too bad. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.800 We're not too bad off on ourselves, but our neighbors 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.159 that are probably a little bit more precarious. So we're 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.880 just getting some sandbags for her today. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.360 Oh fantastic, that's very cool. So because she can't get 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:40.919 down here. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.360 Yeah, it was her garage flood, so she's already got 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.719 a car in there and she can't get it out obviously. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.200 So we're able to help so well. She helps us 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.520 at times with our dog, so that's cool. And speaking 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.000 of help, this is the best help ever, right? Can 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.760 I say hi to you on the TV? How many 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.640 sandbags have you filled today? 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.479 This is still my first time. We know people are 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.039 Queensland tough, but what do you want to say to 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.760 anyone who's watching the telly and just maybe a little 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.239 nervous about the next couple of days. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.000 They just do what you've got to do around house, 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.520 tie everything down that's loose and just keep safe and 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.760 making sure everything squared away. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.040 And you're already this endbangging site was not meant to 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.680 be open today, but because of the delay of Alfred 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.880 actually crossing the coast, they've been able to get a 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.080 few hours in. You know, mate, how are you? 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:31.560 So? 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.480 Are very good? 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:34.240 It? Wait now? 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:34.880 So far. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.400 As soon as we landed in Brisbane, we put a 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.760 message up on our show's Facebook page which was if 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.200 you're in Brisbane, we want to see how you are preparing. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.280 Dave is a loyal Paul Murray Live fan, Thank you, sir, pleasure, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.040 and we've got in his backyard right now. Basically, if 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.360 it moves, if it could fly, the straps are down. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.520 Well done, that's it, Thanks Paul. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.800 Yeah, we've done the best we can. Next is the 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.200 garbage brings everything downside of the house or strap them 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.560 down with tape and done the windows a little bit. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.400 But honestly, I've had sky and nears on and I've 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.279 had the app on the bomb open on the other screens, 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.080 so trying to be aware of it but not too 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:10.760 aware of it. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.640 Thank you Dave's beautiful wife and family as well for 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.560 letting us into their house. But simply, people don't really 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.240 know what is about to happen in the next couple 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.360 of days. We know where the briefings are, we know 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.560 where the expectations are. Of course, everyone's fingers crossed that 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.320 this is something that will skirt mon't be as big 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.520 a problem, and obviously that's what all of us hope 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.160 for here, But the reality is that we don't know 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.680 exactly where this thing is going to hit. But I 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.240 continue some of the early lashings are starting to be 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.960 felt on the Gold Coast that's where Jonathan Lee is 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.920 our reporter, and he is in Burly Heads right now. Mate, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.320 how are we well? The night before the storm. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.160 Yeah, ominos, I suppose is the best way to describe it, Paul. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.120 It was a bluebird morning, stunning, people were out getting coffees, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.120 and then you have the rental rain at times and 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:02.440 you think it's all on, it's happening. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.400 You get the nervous energy and it stops. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:05.880 And if you're going through that as a journalist and 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.960 a media crew, you've got to pay respects to the 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:08.600 locals and what. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:09.679 They're going through at the moment. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.840 They're understandably exceptionally nervous and in some cases scared, and 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.840 for very good reason. We perhaps should start with the 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.680 concerning news. Police have told me they've had dozens of 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.680 reports of people swimming in the oceans, which they've responded to. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.240 At five o'clock this evening, a man was pulled from 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.720 Palm Beach, Corumbin. Onlookers performed CPR and he has been 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.520 taken to Gold Coast Hospital. I've also been told that 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.520 two men were rescued from Sunshine Beach up on the 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.880 Sunny Coast. They were treading water for around fifty minutes 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.600 before they were finally saved. So stay out of the water, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.760 don't go anywhere near it, and don't be treading on 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.480 the sand dunes if they're looking broken and fractured. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:49.680 Is pretty good advice, Paul. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.040 If I can give you an idea of some of 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.240 the weather conditions down here, well you can probably get 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.880 the best gauge when you look at the ocean swell. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.800 Yesterday there was a maximum height of twelve point three 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.240 meters on the Gold Coast. Today there was one recorded 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.839 at sixteen point five meters. It appears that broke the boy, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.520 so they haven't been able to corroborate that. Yesterday in 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.840 Brisbane it was ten point nine today sixteen point eight eight. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.160 It looks like that is another record. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.280 Also, two hundred and thirty four calls for assistance to 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.560 the Sees Southeast Queens and we're looking at around two 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.400 thousand calls in total to the Sees. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:24.800 Top wind speed. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.280 Today of around eighty kilometers an hour. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:27.640 That's going to go up. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.079 It looks like we could have wind gusts down here 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.920 of one hundred and fifty kilometers now, the reason being 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:34.760 we are south of the eye of the storm. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:36.439 That's where things get nasty. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.800 What happens out in the ocean and out off the 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.360 coast is getting thrown at the Gold Coast tonight, we'll 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.200 expect to have between two hundred and four hundred millimeters 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:45.760 of rain tomorrow and the day after. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.280 Forgive me for saying the obvious, but the idea that 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.560 people are swimming in this stuff. I mean Mick Fanning, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.160 a world champion swimmer, swimmer surfer, he was out and 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.760 about and yesterday he got bashed up by it. Obviously 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.960 no one should be going there, but people are, I 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.160 don't know, in the era of selfies, trying to trying 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.920 to do these things. That's your own choice, but it's 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.120 the danger that you put the emergency services in. And 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.280 of course any one person who's responding to that is 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.400 not going to be responding to something else, and that, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.199 of course is just a waste of time and energy, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:19.560 isn't it. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.960 Yeah, exactly right, it's not what the emergency services need. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.320 Paula was very fortunate today to also get down to 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.080 my Woollombar just over the border on the Tweed River. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.440 An incredible community, incredible spirit. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.280 I know you've talked at length to them about them 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.280 before and exactly what they went through in twenty twenty 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.040 two and in twenty seventeen. In fact, last time, they 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.240 were cut off in some cases for weeks at end. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.200 There's understandably been panic buying down. They're expected to get 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.680 batted again. We talked to a few of the locals. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.800 This is what they very warmly had to say about 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.000 their experience thus far. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.440 We have been super busy, Like we sold out yesterday. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.000 You looked around the shop here and we did our best, 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.560 but there was hardly a anything left. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.839 People are nervous panic buying very much. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.320 So yeah, we've had lots of people in buying up big. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.080 What is twenty seventeen and twenty twenty two taught you? 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.599 It's better to be safe than sorry, for sure. I 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.560 don't think anyone's silly for doing what they're doing because 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.719 they've been burnt before. One of the girls that works here, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.440 she actually was stuck in her house in twenty twenty two. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:28.000 I hope it turns away. Realistically, comes in, it's going 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.000 to do a lot of damage. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.439 What's the community around your feeling because it's been battered 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:32.319 a few times. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.000 Morel's pretty low. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.400 It's like here we go again, you know what I mean. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.520 Just they just got out of the last one. You know. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.080 Morell was low for a couple of years and then 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.040 the town picked itself up, and here we go again. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.200 Doing our best to keep the kids calm and entertained. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.400 We're outside playing, making the most of the sunshine. At 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:52.840 the moment. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.600 Do you say the words cyclone? Do you talk about 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.560 the wind? What's the strategy's appearing? 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.760 Look, we've talked about the wind and the floods and 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.880 just sort of being as real as possible and being calm, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.920 being as prepared. They've seen us put everything up, they've 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.560 seen us prepare evacuation kit, so yeah, they know what's happening. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.199 Thank you, John, to get your restumete. You'll need it 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:16.960 for the next couple of days along with everyone else 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.520 there on the Goldie Strength and love to everyone there. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.560 Harry Clark is our Queensland reporter. He's a Victoria Point 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:28.280 in Brisbane. What's the latest there, mate? Get a Paul well. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.960 As John I was saying, it's all pretty unpredictable when 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.679 this thing is actually going to start in Earnest. It's 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.120 been coming and going, the rain and the wind all day, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:37.760 every time you think it's just about to set in, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.760 will it clears out again and blue sky is poking through. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.400 But there's just a bit of a drizzle here now, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.960 when you would think by the time we're waking up 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.360 the morning, there's going to be some pretty consistent rain, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.720 getting heavier and heavier as the hours go by and 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.920 topical cipher and Alfred gets closer and closer to crossing 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.160 the coast. The big concern here on these bayside suburbs, 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.040 there's plenty of low cuntree, a lot of low lying 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.640 homes right up on the water's edge. So unlike the 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.480 Gold Coast where you've got this beach front and then 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.880 up onto the Glitter Strip, here there's actually waterfront homes 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:13.040 right down on the shoreline and plenty of canal residential 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.840 dwellings as well. So what they're calling the astronomical tide, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.080 that's the highest tide expected in a year. The Bureau 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.840 expert forecasts are saying that the storm surge potentially from 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.199 Tropical Cyclone Alfred, will be up to a meter and 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:33.360 a half above that astronomical astronomical high tide level. So 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.800 if you combine that when it's crossing the Coast. Then 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.600 there could very well be plenty of homes over on 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.960 these bayside suburbs to get water coming into them. There's 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.600 a lot of streets are right up on the water. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.280 But it's interesting. They think they're going to be right. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.840 They're up above you know, rock embatements and that kind 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.079 of thing, but they're not taking any chances, even though 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:53.800 they think it's not going to come over it. In 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.920 certain areas, they've got sand bags up and they've cleared 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.880 the debris from their homes. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.720 But it is just a wait and see. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.680 There hasn't been a major cyclone here since the seventies 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.600 and the fifties in the case of the Gold Coast, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.559 and a lot of people weren't alive then. So it's 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.079 just going to be a matter of waiting and seeing 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.240 what happens when this storm comes in early tomorrow Saturday morning. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.240 Yeah, Harry, one of the reasons why we're here in 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.760 Redcliffe is because well, firstly, I've got plenty of mates 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.960 here and I love them very much, but also because 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.400 it's an area where you know, once the rain starts 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.040 to get in, the saw gets pretty sodden pretty quickly, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.520 and obviously there's a whole bunch of problems that start there. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.560 Let's be quite specific for people who live in Brisbane. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.200 Do we have any sense of areas of concern? Feel 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.360 free to name suburbs. I know it's a national show, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.520 but give us an idea for those people who may 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.560 have family or friends or have visited this wonderful part 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.720 of the world. What are apart from those bayside areas, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.280 what are some of the suburbs people need to be 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:50.640 particularly vigilant in. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.760 Well, when you come to Inland Brisbane, Brisbane proper, the 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.640 suburbs of concerned are going to be a lot of 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.640 those have experienced water through them before, back in twenty 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.680 eleven the floods and also twenty twenty two, so places 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:11.280 like Nudge Beach, Rockley, Ashgrove, Milton, Rosalie, Tuwong over your 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.080 Wronger Pilly. Those areas that river in a flooding area 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.360 that the residents are familiar with. They're the ones to 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.600 watch out for. But it is an unpredictable how it's 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.480 going to behave where the actual rain falls. It's not 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.640 a river flood as such, this one because it's coming 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.480 from the coast and the water is not sort of 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.560 falling over land like the other big big weather events 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:37.280 we've had. But Rockley, Nudgy Beach, Windsor is well as 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.520 another one those inner western suburbs, parts of Walk and Flower. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.120 Rosalie Village is pretty much the lowest street in Brisbane, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.120 so those you would expect would be the first ones 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.160 to go under. Just off Park Road there at Milton, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.000 pretty close to where I live, actually is going to 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.440 be threatened by flood waters, no doubt, But you're wrong. Pilly, Rockerilely, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.920 Oxley are some of the suburbs to name but a few. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.640 Good on you boys, Thank you very much again, have 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.280 your rest because we've got plenty ahead of us in 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.280 the next couple of days. Of course, as soon as 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.520 the sun rises, they'll be here with first edition with 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.440 Pete in the morning all the way through to us 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.080 tomorrow night. Alison Osbourne is a meteorologist with Sky News Weather. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.280 Allison give us an idea of some of the early 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.240 impacts of this tropical cyclone, Alfred. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.880 Paul Well right behind me, you can see cool and 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.320 Gatta Beach disappearing in a storm surge today. These are 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.680 the kind of waves that make swimming extremely dangerous, even unthinkable. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.920 They can lead to quite dangerous flooding in the surf 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.920 zone and also enough to break the waveboy that measures 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.600 those wave heights off the Gold Coast. Now, the stop 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.640 start rain that you all have been talking about this evening, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.000 you can see it has been rolling on in as 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.880 the rainbands headotropical Cyclone Alfred roll on through. But it 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.120 is this dark echo out to see. This is not 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.400 stop start. This will be the heavy, persistent rain as 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:59.840 that system crosses the coast. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.200 It is on its way. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.320 We've seen damaging wind gars in excess of one hundred 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.440 and five kilometers per. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:06.240 Uric cake byron. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.040 Today the winds are picking up through the coasters well. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.879 Tropical cyclone warnings remain current for all communities between Double 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.399 Island Point in Queensland and Grafton in New South Wales. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.560 That warning area hasn't changed, it's just the timing of 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.480 the impacts and the duration which are now being impacted. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.480 Yeah, amazing graphics, particularly that very ominous sense of as 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.240 you say, the stop start range that becomes quite persistent, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.000 quite difficult again twenty four to seven, make sure that 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.359 you can check out the weather channel on Foxtel and 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.840 also at Sky news dot Com dot Au. Now, Allison, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.480 give us an idea as this as the tropical cyclone 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.800 is slowing, that of course is delaying its ultimate impact. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.639 What does that mean for the people who are in 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:50.240 the path. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.120 Of this thing, Well, Paul I would say to everyone 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.320 in this area in red this is very much an 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.720 underway event now, even though we have more than twenty 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.600 four hours before this system the coast. At this stage, 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.800 coastal crossing is likely between newser and Cool and Gata 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.439 in the early hours of Saturday morning. The system is 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.800 likely to weaken as it crosses the islands off Morton Bay, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.920 so Stradbroke Island and Morton Island likely reaching a Category 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.600 one by the time it does so. But it's the 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.000 areas to the south of the system crossing. So at 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.080 this stage this forecast model and the official forecast track 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.720 pill has that heavier rain and more destructive winds over Brisbane, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.320 the Gold Coast and the Byron Coast. So whether or 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.919 not you'll be impacted by the most dangerous impacts on 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.440 Friday night and into Saturday morning will depend on ultimately 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.240 where that system crosses. So this is why that warning 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.760 area is very extensive. Of those who need to be 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.080 prepared from Double Island Point in Queensland right the. 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:48.280 Way through to the Coffs Coast. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.200 We're watching for the threat of destructive winds but also 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.320 heavy rain. Twenty four hour rainfall totals three hundred and 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.600 fifty to four hundred and fifty millimeters. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:57.600 It's a huge amount of. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.560 Rain which can lead to very dangerous flash flooding, so 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.040 stay off the roads. Destructive winds are most likely just 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.560 south of the system center as it crosses Paul. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:08.000 Meanwhile, damaging winds are. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.480 Possible throughout this entire yellow shaded area over the course 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.400 of Friday and inn to Saturday. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.960 Now flooding this is likely to be a. 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.200