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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and with with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Cyclone Alfred is now forecast to make landfall very early

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Speaker 2: Saturday morning.

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Speaker 1: Those rainfall and wind gusts intensify. Sixteen evacuation orders were

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Speaker 1: issued at parts.

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Speaker 3: Of the Northern Rivers.

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Speaker 1: Here in New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: Waves of up to twelve meters have hit the Gold Coast,

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Speaker 2: three airports of grounded flights and four million people told

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Speaker 2: to stay at home.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to throw to Chervot in a sec.

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Speaker 3: Are we We're going to try to get him on

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Speaker 3: in a second. But yeah, it's look hasn't hit yet,

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Speaker 3: Winds aren't up a part picking up until around about

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Speaker 3: midday today, and then the brunt of the storm, Cyclone

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Speaker 3: Alfred will be hitting the sort of saying sort of

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Speaker 3: early tomorrow morning now. But in Sydney, jeez, Sunday, we're

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Speaker 3: going to be coppying up to one hundred millimeters around

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Speaker 3: ourselves here in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: So well, it's drifted south, hasn't it. I mean it

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Speaker 2: was expected to land a little bit high when it

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Speaker 2: does hit the shores. But also I know that Lizmore

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Speaker 2: the residents have been evacuated overnight that's where the premier

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Speaker 2: chrismins is at the moment as well. So as it

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Speaker 2: continues to find its way, heading further south, more and

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Speaker 2: more people being evacuated, and there's also hundreds of homes

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Speaker 2: that have already lost power.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll keep you updated all morning on cyclone Alfred.

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Speaker 3: But one man who I thought was a little bit

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Speaker 3: insensitive rocking up to sunrise in a wet suit. Now

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Speaker 3: our surfboard this morning is Matt Shervington. Servot is live

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Speaker 3: on the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 1: You're there, chervo frothing the waves of stick out of

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Speaker 1: here go.

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Speaker 2: No, we'll get him when he comes back in.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be caught out court, put out there on

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Speaker 1: a what is it? Death on a stick? Out there? Mate,

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Speaker 1: would't be caught out there. It's incredible, Actually, it's amazing

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Speaker 1: that some surfers are still going out. I just it

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Speaker 1: blows my mind. I just can't believe that they're willing

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Speaker 1: to risk themselves. But you know, I guess that it is.

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Speaker 3: What it is.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a bad storm on the Gold Coast

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Speaker 1: when all the tattoo joints shut down. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to get something good luck with us.

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Speaker 2: What about the tobacco stores? Have they shut up shop

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Speaker 2: as well? Chervet Or been fire bombed.

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Speaker 1: Between the tobacco stores and seven eleven, they wouldn't shut

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Speaker 1: down during an armageddon event.

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Speaker 3: So actually, just paint a picture for us, because everyone's

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Speaker 3: been the main beach on the Gold Coast's what's the

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Speaker 3: sand and the shoreline there? Is it getting eaten?

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Speaker 2: The wine?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 3: How far is the water up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about the seriousness of it, because it

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Speaker 1: really is. And I've got to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit concerned because we're still one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy k's off the coast Outfred at the moment. The

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Speaker 1: wind in the last six to eight hours has already

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Speaker 1: been really intense. On our way to we're at Burley

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Speaker 1: at the moment for sunrise, and on the way from

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Speaker 1: Broadbeach to Burley, we went through Miami and we couldn't

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Speaker 1: get through one particular road because there was a tree

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Speaker 1: completely down. I jumped out and started filming and didn't

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Speaker 1: realize that there were power lines down too. So you've

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Speaker 1: got to be careful of the hidden dangers. You talk

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Speaker 1: about main Beach, Yeah, it's just not there at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So I was up there yesterday, and if you've been

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Speaker 1: to the spit, which is the breakwall which kind of

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Speaker 1: goes out to the north of main beach, it the

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Speaker 1: locals were saying that about one hundred meters off shore

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Speaker 1: normally is where the shoreline would be. The shore was

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Speaker 1: basically a meter in and all scarping was just completely

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Speaker 1: about maybe twenty five thirty foot down to the kind

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Speaker 1: of bottom part of the sand. It was incredible to see,

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Speaker 1: and people were starting to stay away because just in

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Speaker 1: the car, like the wind and the rain in the

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Speaker 1: car makes it really difficult to drive. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think we're going to see a lot of people around

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Speaker 1: on the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 2: But you mentioned it's still one hundred and seventy k's

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Speaker 2: out to see how fast is it moving and is

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Speaker 2: it heading directly to the shore?

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, the bomb isn't even saying how

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Speaker 1: fast it is moving. They're just saying slow moving. At

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Speaker 1: the moment, we've just had an update from the bomb

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Speaker 1: and they're saying that it's going to hit at about

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Speaker 1: kind of early hours of Saturday. They haven't even given

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Speaker 1: a specific time either. But what they are saying, is

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Speaker 1: it's going to it's a category too. It's going to

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Speaker 1: maintain its intensity as it hit land, which normally it

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Speaker 1: would dissipate a bit. That they're saying that it's going

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Speaker 1: to maintain as it crosses, which is not good news.

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Speaker 1: Obvious story where currently tracking at the moment is around

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Speaker 1: Morton Bay. And also it's also not great news for

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Speaker 1: Brisbane too because if it does maintain its intensity, it's

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Speaker 1: going to hit Brisbane only twenty five k's up the

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Speaker 1: road with that category two level of intensity, not great news.

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Speaker 3: Sure, could it peter out though, like could it go

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Speaker 3: the other way? Could it slow down a little bit

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Speaker 3: and be a bit underwhelming?

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Speaker 1: I asked the bomb that specifically yesterday, is there any

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Speaker 1: chance of competer out? And they said no, straight no,

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Speaker 1: could it go the other way though? Reduced its intensity,

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Speaker 1: but it's not.

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Speaker 2: Going to peter out. Can you have like a wind change,

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Speaker 2: like a bush fire where it changes direction, Well, it's been.

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Speaker 1: Pretty unpredictable at the moment. It's already shifted a bit

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Speaker 1: further north the predicted landfall, so it's around that Morton

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Speaker 1: Bay area and if you know Sunshine Coast Noosa, that

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Speaker 1: sort of area that's kind of the tip of the

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Speaker 1: intensity of it, and then it goes a little bit

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Speaker 1: further beyond and then right down past where we are

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Speaker 1: cool and goatter that sort of area, and then further

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Speaker 1: down into New South Wales is where that rainband and

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Speaker 1: really destructive winds are going to hit as well. So

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Speaker 1: it's a really broad area.

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Speaker 3: Just before you go Chevo. Is it true that one

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Speaker 3: of you, one of your reporters and the cameraman got

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Speaker 3: some stuff flogged while you were doing a live cross?

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Speaker 3: Is that correct?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure mate. I know that in Adelaide they

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Speaker 1: got a light stolen a couple of weeks ago. Last

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Speaker 1: week it was yeah, not saying that you know Adelaide,

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Speaker 1: but god are if they were on Lundle Wall actually

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Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, I'm sorry and got a light stolen?

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Speaker 2: Well do you know what I love, Sherv. I love

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Speaker 2: the Queenslanders. They haven't lost their sense of Here at

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Speaker 2: one of the bus stops there there's a sign hanging

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Speaker 2: out what I've just seen on the Buttudo Advocate site

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Speaker 2: that says the only Alfie Win will ever need and

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Speaker 2: it's got Elfie Langer a cardboard cutout that's been put

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Speaker 2: up the bus, so the sense of humor remains, Mate.

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Speaker 2: But we you're doing an amazing job and we know

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of information coming in, so we thank

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Speaker 2: you for your time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, just going to jump back in my website.

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Speaker 3: I'll be out there, lad and hey, if you keep

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Speaker 3: this up as a reporter, you may get on the

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Speaker 3: Breakfast Show one day on Sunrise, So good luck, Shure.

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Speaker 1: That'd be nice. Thanks man, good to have the work experience.

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Speaker 1: Kid on you Mate.

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