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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: In tropical cyclone Alfred bears down on the Queensland coast.

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Speaker 3: Make sure that you prepare any event of the worst

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Speaker 3: case scenario.

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Speaker 1: This is a rare event. Take this seriously facing storm surges,

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Speaker 1: strong winds and flooding rains.

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Speaker 2: You're really confronting and it's all heating up as it

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Speaker 2: moves towards the land. At the moment, one man Chervo

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Speaker 2: is on the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, yeah, quite remarkable here. It's still three hundred

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Speaker 1: k's offshore cyclone OUTFA they're calling at the locals quite affectionately.

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Speaker 1: But the wave the last couple of days of the

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Speaker 1: enormous the erosion of the typical Gold Coast beaches that

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Speaker 1: we see, you know, whether you come up here in

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Speaker 1: holiday or you see on the TV or whatever, they

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Speaker 1: just disappeared. They're eroded completely. So that's just a big

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Speaker 1: part of it. That's the first phase. Apparently, then the

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Speaker 1: wind's going to hit and we're just waiting at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Chervo, is it scarier to think that it has slowed

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Speaker 3: down that when it does hit, that it's going to

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Speaker 3: stick around for a lot longer. Is that what everyone's

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Speaker 3: freaking out about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Fits, And the biggest problem with that is is the

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Speaker 1: rain that it's going to bring, because it's slowed to

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Speaker 1: seven k's an hour at the moment. But there's also

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Speaker 1: I've become a bit of a weather expert, there's an

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Speaker 1: interior trough that's pushing towards the coast from Interior Australia

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Speaker 1: that it's going to hold it up even more. And

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Speaker 1: they reckon by the time that they meet with each other,

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Speaker 1: it could be directly over land, which potentially would be

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Speaker 1: the Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast down to kind of Byron.

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Speaker 1: And what that means is that along with the storm

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Speaker 1: search that's already been produced, it's also going to have

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Speaker 1: that heavy rain. So they're talking about eight hundred millimeters

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Speaker 1: of rain, which means that if that's there for a

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Speaker 1: long period of time, then all of those low lying

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Speaker 1: areas that we know on the Gold in Sunshine Coast,

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Speaker 1: they're just going to get inundated with water.

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Speaker 2: Chevo. I mean, I was looking at some of the

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Speaker 2: weather warnings last night, and also you see people on

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Speaker 2: social media and I think the scary thing is too

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Speaker 2: you don't actually know what to expect, because anything can happen,

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Speaker 2: and you wonder how you know the townships will hold up.

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Speaker 2: But there was a guy and how reckon. He must

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Speaker 2: have been in the tallest tower on the Gold Coast

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Speaker 2: in an apartment and he's filming out to see and

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Speaker 2: even that looked intense. So what is the advice to

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Speaker 2: anybody that might be sort of in and around that area,

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Speaker 2: whether you're in an apartment or you actually got a

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Speaker 2: house there on the Goldie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, firstly, stay away from the coast. So there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people hanging out and curious to see

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Speaker 1: what it all looks like. And I was one of

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Speaker 1: those yesterday. We headed up to an area called the Spit,

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Speaker 1: which is just the northern part of Main Beach really

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Speaker 1: on the Gold Coast, and you know that the shearing

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Speaker 1: of the dunes was it would have been twenty five

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Speaker 1: foot high and the foam coming in. But there's also

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Speaker 1: a break wall there where the spit is and people

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Speaker 1: could normally walk out to the end of it. Two

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Speaker 1: people got swept off there, yeh God, So the police

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Speaker 1: shut it down for danger to people watching on. So

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Speaker 1: stay away from the coast to start with, and then

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Speaker 1: in terms of the tall towers and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: you've just got to stay away from the glazing. If

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Speaker 1: they're just saying glass is the biggest issue. Make sure

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Speaker 1: that you tie down anything that can be tied down

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Speaker 1: or otherwise bring any outdoor furniture inside. But the most

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Speaker 1: amazing thing about that is we don't really know. So

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Speaker 1: all of these tall towers that have been built in

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Speaker 1: the last kind of fifty years, although we don't really

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Speaker 1: know how they're going to handle that, you know, ninety

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Speaker 1: k sustained wind or up to one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: five K gust of wind, and some saying that the

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Speaker 1: towers will actually sway cause you imagine being on the

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Speaker 1: top of some of these tall Goldie and the building

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Speaker 1: swaying under your feet.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, that is so scary. Back in the day

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Speaker 3: when you were the fastest man in Australia, I mean,

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Speaker 3: you would have made a few appearances at Melbur's Shooters,

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Speaker 3: Cocktails and dreams up there on the Gold Coast. They

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Speaker 3: still open for you to have a drink in.

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Speaker 1: You last night, it was all happy days. That was

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Speaker 1: kind of like a off toolies really, so it's all

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Speaker 1: shut down now like it's everywhere there we all you know,

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Speaker 1: we all know the shopping precink is to be there

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Speaker 1: to start shopping precink to shut down. So actually, there

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Speaker 1: weren't many people around early this morning as I headed

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Speaker 1: off for Sunrise because the casino was shut so I

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Speaker 1: don't know wherever I was going to find a lock

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Speaker 1: in somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Jus been shut down, you know, I share.

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Speaker 1: I we know how busy you are.

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Speaker 3: Brother. Thank you so much forgiving for chatting to us

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Speaker 3: this morning.

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Speaker 1: Nice one, guys, take care, Thanks Legend, good luck.

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