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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to enjoy a break today before things

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Speaker 1: are back with a vengeance by the look of it tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Somebody who's been keeping an eye on the forecast is

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Speaker 1: ADC Civil Defense Controller Ian Hyde. Thanks for coming by, May.

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Speaker 2: No problem, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: So we had any damage from the past couple of days, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we have.

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Speaker 3: We've It's mostly for our Open Spaces team to deal with.

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Speaker 3: We've had some some or a door toilet door come

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Speaker 3: off and there a kai gorge.

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Speaker 2: Came up from and that's coming your way. Yeah here,

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Speaker 2: and a tree in CBD split due to the wind.

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Speaker 3: And then over the last couple of events, we've had

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Speaker 3: two gum trees outside Walworths and the Eshburden South the

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Speaker 3: Est and River have been damaged in the recent wins.

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Speaker 3: One got taken down last week and the others due

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Speaker 3: to come down tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Today. Well, we've got a bit of a lull in

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Speaker 2: the weather.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well played, okay, so we'll look out for cruis

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Speaker 1: taking care of that bit of extra firewood available of late.

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Speaker 1: I imagine so on that the lulld today gives us a

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Speaker 1: chance to check properties and consider what preparations we can

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Speaker 1: make because the forecast tomorrow. It's looking daisy.

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Speaker 2: It is a little bit.

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Speaker 3: We're looking like we're getting more of the same and

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Speaker 3: maybe maybe a little bit more. At the moment, met

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Speaker 3: Services saying that we're having a strong wind warning gusts

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Speaker 3: of up to one hundred and thirty kilometers an hour

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Speaker 3: and exposed places.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty rare that we.

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Speaker 3: Get winds down that strong down to the coast, but

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Speaker 3: you never know.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit unpredictable, yeah, and we might.

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Speaker 1: The foothills are pretty well, yeah, we might get a bit.

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Speaker 3: It gets a bit worse sometimes by experience up in

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Speaker 3: the foothills as well. And that's from Thursday from eight

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Speaker 3: am till five pm.

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Speaker 2: In terms of what.

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Speaker 3: People, you know, we'd like people to do, it's it's

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Speaker 3: pretty common sense stuff. Really, We're after you just just

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Speaker 3: go around your property, check for loose items, secure things

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Speaker 3: like trampolines, outdoor furniture, checking on your vulnerable family, neighbors

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Speaker 3: and friends. If you can make sure of course that

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Speaker 3: pets and stock are safe and have shelter, and you

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Speaker 3: should probably you know, EA networks will do a great job,

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Speaker 3: but it's a bit unpredictable, and we can have power

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Speaker 3: cuts in these kinds of situations, So if you can

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Speaker 3: and just stay clear of.

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Speaker 2: Rivers, reserves, rail trails, other areas.

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Speaker 3: With tall trees until the wind dies down. The other

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Speaker 3: really important thing for us, and we always say in

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Speaker 3: an emergency like this, is if you can please just

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Speaker 3: avoid essential travel. As we said during the break, people

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Speaker 3: love to have a bit of a rubberneck, but if

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Speaker 3: you can start home, that's all to the best and

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Speaker 3: it actually really helps our emergency services as well.

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Speaker 1: What's the trigger point for our local civil defense? So

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Speaker 1: what stage do you do you stand up your operations center.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty much a case by case scenario.

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Speaker 3: So we can have anything from our emergency management officer

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Speaker 3: just getting phone calls and just handling it himself, to

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Speaker 3: and then we get whoever we think we need on deck.

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Speaker 3: So it can be very very small, or it can

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Speaker 1: All of this has got me thinking about emergency preparedness

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Speaker 1: and I know we talk about it a lot, but

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Speaker 1: actually taking action is another thing. A spot on Facebook

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Speaker 1: thanks to our friends a specsators asking how long do

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Speaker 1: you reckon you'd be right should something happen and the

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Speaker 1: power goes out and the water stops flowing. I imagine

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Speaker 1: you guys discuss it all the time. What do you

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Speaker 3: Well, basically what we say is that you know, obviously

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Speaker 3: saying you should have some drinking water. You really need

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Speaker 3: probably have at least a few days worth of water.

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Speaker 3: Yeahssari high energy and long life food, something to cook

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Speaker 2: Perhaps solar charges if you can't.

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Speaker 3: If you can get your hands on one of those,

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Speaker 3: they're pretty cheap online prescription medications obviously, and then maybe

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Speaker 3: food and pet food if you need.

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Speaker 2: It as well.

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Speaker 3: That's that's the big things things to be self sufficient

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Speaker 3: for a reasonably extended period of time.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing as well, if you like me.

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Speaker 3: Is keep checking that that kit as well, because I

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Speaker 3: tend to if I don't go to the supermarket, tend.

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Speaker 2: To raid it, and yes they were guilty of that.

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Speaker 3: Or the food or the food you know, goes out

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair play. I feel like there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of lessons that we learned, you know, through that christ

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Speaker 1: earthquake period, and we stuff too. We hack for instance

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Speaker 1: of von on the Facebook page. It's always handy to

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Speaker 1: have some cash in there because if something happens, the

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Speaker 1: internet's gone, no FPOs exactly. Good advice, Rellian, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: really good advice. Keeping the get the car top with gas,

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Speaker 1: I did. I feel pretty prepared not to sort of

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Speaker 1: blow my own trumpet or anything here, Ian, but I

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Speaker 1: back when it bought a WEE generator, because I thought,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be nothing worse than having to sit

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Speaker 1: Netflix series that are saved and whatnot, So that was

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Speaker 1: primarily the reason. And then you know, to keep the

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Speaker 1: freezers going with all the meat and whatnot. That's that's

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Speaker 1: in there. And then also somebody else has suggested that

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Speaker 1: you've got water storage if you don't have as many

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Speaker 1: containers on hand as you probably should in the systems

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Speaker 1: of the toilets, so long as it's not coming out

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Speaker 1: of the bowl. Although what it's with Reese Walsh for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you can do that, you know.

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Speaker 3: We we'd always obviously suggest that in a situation like

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Speaker 3: that you would boil the water because you never know

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Speaker 3: what's in the water supplies.

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Speaker 1: Got a couple of gased up bottles for the barbecues.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly, Just those sort of things that you

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Speaker 3: can think all the things that you need. Your example

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice, good to put it on the radar. One

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Speaker 1: of those things you want to be prepared for. But

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Speaker 1: hope that we never have to grab it, and certainly

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Speaker 1: hope that tomorrow doesn't play out as bad as what

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Speaker 1: they're picking. He is to settle today for yourself, Ian,

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Speaker 1: I'd really appreciate you coming on by.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much,