1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: Well, we're watching things from this side of the country 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: as the other side of the country prepares for cyclone Alfred. 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: Sunrise host Matt Shervington is on the Gold Coast and 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: has very kindly taken a moment to fill us in 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: with what's happening. 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: Matt, Hello mate, Welcome morning guys. Yeah, great to be 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: on the show. 8 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an odd feeling here at the moment. And 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 3: I mean, you know, the West is no stranger to 10 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 3: cyclone activity. The Gold Coast essentially where I am, and 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 3: even to a lesser extent, the Sunshine Coast and down 12 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 3: to kind of that northeast part of New South. 13 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: Wales haven't really experienced. 14 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 3: A lot of cyclone activity. They've experienced flooding, they've experienced 15 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 3: our big storm cells. 16 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 2: But this is a little bit odd. So the last 17 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 2: one on. 18 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: The Gold Coast was about fifty years ago, and the 19 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 3: one similar to this size was about seventy years ago. 20 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 3: So a lot of the residents that have been living 21 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 3: here for quite some time don't know what. 22 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: To expect right now. It's strange. And I say that 23 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: it's odd because the sun's out. 24 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 3: And rush it feels like the storm is broken because 25 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 3: this morning. When we started sunrise, it was raining, it 26 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 3: was windy and dark, and now the sun's come out. 27 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 3: But what's happened is so cycloone Alfred was about three 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 3: hundred ks offshore last night. Midway through the night, it 29 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 3: did a loop upon itself, so it actually did like 30 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 3: a holding pattern and that's created the break in the storm. 31 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 3: But what's happened, it's done a full revolution and it's 32 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 3: still pushing towards the same region. So it's still going 33 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 3: to hit between the Sunshine Coasts in Queensland and that 34 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 3: Northern Parsan, Northern Rivers in New South Wales around kind 35 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 3: of Byron Bay, Lismore, that sort of area. So it's 36 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 3: still coming. The Prime Minister spoke just a short time ago. 37 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: It's still coming. He said, we're not out of danger. 38 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 3: Make sure that you use this window to do your 39 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: final preparations. He's offered up three hundred and ten thousand 40 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: sandbags and if that sounds like a lot, four hundred 41 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 3: were handed out. Four hundred thousand were handed out across 42 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 3: southeast Queensland yesterday. 43 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 2: Are so people who are doing. 44 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 3: The preps, they're doing what they can and they're hoping 45 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 3: for the best. 46 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: I think the last time I saw you guys battening 47 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: down the hatches like this was cyclone Yazi back in 48 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: twenty might have been twenty eleven or something, and I 49 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: believe that crossed around Mission Beach, so that was a 50 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: lot further north. 51 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And I wasn't around then. I didn't cover 52 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: that directly. But last year. 53 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 3: Sort of at the tail end of twenty three, it 54 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 3: was was cyclone Jasper and. 55 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 2: That shit, yes, around that town that. 56 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 3: Sort of north of towns, a more closer to Port Douglas, 57 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: and I was up there for that one, and that 58 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 3: was a Category four storm that came through and it 59 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: actually dissipated fairly quickly and. 60 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: Wasn't as bad as first thought. 61 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: But being through that, and the crazy thing is you 62 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 3: lose power pretty early on when a cyclone comes through 63 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 3: because it affects the energy systems and you're in the dark, 64 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 3: especially if it crosses overnight, and that's potential what could happen. 65 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 2: It has been delayed a little bit. 66 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 3: It was going to hit very early on Friday morning, 67 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 3: one am, and that's been pushed back to kind of 68 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 3: even late on Friday afternoon into Saturday, So hopefully if 69 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 3: it does hit it, it will be light and just take 70 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 3: that element out of out of people's fears, because the 71 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 3: anticipation for people here is not knowing what's going to happen. 72 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: They now have to wait in another twenty four hours. 73 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 4: There's a lot of sitting there waiting, but not affected 74 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 4: directly here, but we're definitely directed with friends and family. 75 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 4: And I just checked in with the old man who 76 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 4: lives in NUSA. He's a sort of in the hinterland 77 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 4: and he's up there and he said, we're just, yes, 78 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 4: somewhere here, we're just sitting and waiting. So that's part 79 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 4: of them let's do all the prep. But there's a 80 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 4: lot of people waiting in those areas. 81 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. 82 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 3: And you would have seen some of the sea swell 83 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 3: come through right through that Sunshine Coast area NUSA especially. 84 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 3: I mean, the surfaces have been having a field day. 85 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: I'm literally sitting just. 86 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 3: In the car in the car park at Burley Beach 87 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 3: and the waves are just ment, They're just massive. And 88 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 3: most of us would know from in the state coming 89 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 3: up to surface Paradise or the scene parks, or we 90 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 3: know that there's this expanse of golden beaches, Well that's gone. 91 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: It's all been eroded away. 92 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 3: So it's definitely a change and it's definitely a sense 93 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 3: of what's to come, but we just don't know quotematically. 94 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: What becomes biggest concern or is it sort of being 95 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: cut off from power and whatnot. I've seen the supermarket 96 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: shells obviously be empty. 97 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, the Premier, the premiere summed it up. So the 98 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 3: Queensland Premier, David Christo Folly sums. 99 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: It up really well. He said, it's basically three phases. 100 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 2: The first phase is that that sees. 101 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 3: Well which will come in a road a lot of 102 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 3: those kind of coastal areas and you've got to be 103 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 3: mindful obviously if you have residents or businesses that are 104 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 3: really close to the sands edge. That's kind of where 105 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 3: we're aut at the moment. And then phase two is 106 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: the wind. The wind will kind of pre empt the 107 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 3: storm coming through and that's going to whip up a 108 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: lot that's going to move a lot of things around, 109 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 3: and people need to prepare for that. They need to 110 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 3: tie things down, they need to and bring things inside, 111 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 3: they need to tape up windows and they're doing that 112 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 3: will be the storm surge, which will be the increase 113 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 3: in the ocean levels, and that could increase buy up 114 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 3: to a meter based on the tide. So if it 115 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 3: comes through at high tide and that surge coincides with it, 116 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 3: it could be a massive tidal surge. 117 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 2: And then you've also. 118 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 3: Got the rain, and the rain is the thing that 119 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 3: will be hanging around for a long time. And the 120 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 3: fact that it's only going seven k's an hour cyclone 121 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 3: ol for it is that it's carrying a lot of 122 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 3: rain in the system so upwards. I mean they're saying 123 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 3: around the Gold Coast at the moment, it could get 124 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: to around eight hundred millimeters of rain in that short 125 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 3: period of time that it's crossing. 126 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: So that becomes a bit of an issue obviously, with. 127 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 3: The storm surge and the rain prolonged in an isolated 128 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 3: area for a period of time. 129 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: The other thing, Matt, is when we picture the Gold 130 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: Coast over here, we picture all those high rises along 131 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: the Gold Coast coast. Are they made to cope with 132 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: situation like this or is this all a bit unprecedented 133 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: and time? 134 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, as I said, the last big one, which 135 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 3: was Cyclone Wonder that came through nineteen seventy four. 136 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 2: That was the last big one. 137 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 3: So if you've been up to the Goalie any any 138 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 3: in a recent trip, you'll know that there's been a 139 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 3: lot of development in the last fifteen years, and there's 140 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,239 Speaker 3: a lot of tall towers. Look, I'm not an engineer. 141 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 2: I don't know one thing. 142 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 3: I do know though, apparently, And I'm on the nineteenth 143 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 3: floor of the hotel we're staying in at the moment. 144 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: I'm almost thinking I might just get a lower floor 145 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 3: just in case. 146 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 4: We designed to around. 147 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. 148 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 3: Well, some of those taller towers they actually shift. I 149 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 3: don't know if I want to kind of sleep through 150 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,559 Speaker 3: that it might of bed But yeah, I'm after something 151 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 3: on the more conservative fifth. 152 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 2: Floor or something like that in the basement, please the 153 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 2: basement in a flood happy medium in the middle. 154 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 4: And that we've seen events like the Green Day Gig 155 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 4: and you know, so the AFL Games and all that 156 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 4: moved or postponed or whatever. But wouldn't you think we 157 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 4: should have a more threatening name than Elford, maybe Voldemort 158 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 4: or something. Alford just doesn't sound. 159 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: Well, you know, how oardy is it? And a reflection 160 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 3: of the Goldie too. They're all calling it Cyclone Alfhi. 161 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 4: Here's it all about it on the best. 162 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: Yes, we we are thinking about you, and I mean 163 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: one thing about cyclones is you never know what's going 164 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: to happen. And it has been pushed back and pushed back. 165 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: It could it could just go away, you know, I. 166 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,239 Speaker 4: Could just yeah. 167 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 2: Saying it won't dissipate but left. 168 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know, Matt, stay safe. Thanks, thanks for 169 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: your time. 170 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: Nice one. 171 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 3: You two guys. 172 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 4: Good luck on level nineteen. But shaken. 173 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm taken all about level nineteen. 174 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 4: They to move, then they move a few centimeters as well. 175 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. 176 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 4: Yeah it feels bit he or you up there. It 177 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 4: does too rigid. It's not good.