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Speaker 1: Well, a real change of pace from politics right now

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Speaker 1: because that weather it is glorious in terms of cooling

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Speaker 1: things down. But gee, there's been a lot of rain

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Speaker 1: and we are being told to brace for heavy falls

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Speaker 1: of up to eighty to one hundred billimeters in the

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Speaker 1: top end overcoming days. Monsoonal rain and high tide caused

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Speaker 1: flooding yesterday, with rapid Greek reaching three point one nine

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Speaker 1: meters just below moderate levels. Two people did require assistance.

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Speaker 1: Assistance from what I can gather. Now, joining me for

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Speaker 1: a bit of an update on the situation is NTY

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Speaker 1: Emergency Service Director Flur O'Connor.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Flur, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Lovely to have you in this studio.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me, do you have any idea if we

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Speaker 1: did we get a lot of rain again overnight it

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Speaker 1: seemed like we did.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So like overnight the night before overnight, we've over

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Speaker 4: the last twenty four hours actually we've probably received over

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Speaker 4: one hundred millimeters in some areas in the northern suburbs

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Speaker 4: and across Darwin as well.

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Speaker 3: So rainfall for dain over a number of days.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it seemed that way, and it was quite

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Speaker 1: squarely this morning as well. I sort of was half

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Speaker 1: expecting to wake up and see some trees falling down

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Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. But I guess we get

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Speaker 1: a bit used to it here in the territory, don't we.

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Speaker 4: It's not unusual, obviously during the wet season to experience

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Speaker 4: this kind of weather. It has been a while, and obviously,

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Speaker 4: you know, two days in a row with that heavy

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Speaker 4: rainfall is I guess impacting some of the roads where

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Speaker 4: we're seeing some road closures, especially yesterday, created a bit

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Speaker 4: of traffic congestion for people going into work yesterday morning.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, like you mentioned, it was in conjunction with

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Speaker 4: a high tide and there was flooding over the road

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Speaker 4: on mcmillons, created.

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Speaker 3: A bit of traffic issues.

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Speaker 4: We were obviously monitoring what that might look like today

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Speaker 4: this morning with another high tide, but it wasn't as

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Speaker 4: high as what it was yesterday. So there was no

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Speaker 4: road closures this morning.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so nothing not too many, Like, no road closures

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Speaker 1: or anything that our listeners need to be aware of.

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Speaker 2: This morning. It all seems to be a little bit better.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no road closures that I'm aware of at the moment,

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Speaker 4: but for the most up to date info, check road report.

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Speaker 1: And t And I mean with this rain and with

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Speaker 1: this mon sooner rain and high tides, are we expecting

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Speaker 1: at any point that we could be in the situation

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Speaker 1: that we're in again yesterday or are we sort of

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Speaker 1: anticipating that things might subside to some degree.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So with a tropical low forming, it's likely to draw

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Speaker 4: away the weather from Darwin and it will start moving

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Speaker 4: easterly towards the Gulf of Carpenteria. So we should see

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Speaker 4: an easing of conditions over the next few days. That

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Speaker 4: doesn't mean that we shouldn't be prepared. Obviously, we will

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Speaker 4: still experience some rain, maybe not to the extent over

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Speaker 4: the last two days. But really just want people to

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Speaker 4: be very mindful of water on the road, being you know,

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Speaker 4: driving safe, having your headlights on, and don't cross flooded waters.

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Speaker 1: It is it seems like such simple advice, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to get through. I mean, have you

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Speaker 1: had call outs to help people, to give them assistance?

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Speaker 4: I believe through police there have been callouts. I don't

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Speaker 4: have those details on me, but in terms of requests

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Speaker 4: from Northern Territory Emergency Service, we have had to provide

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Speaker 4: some support to our local residents here in Darwin. So

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Speaker 4: yesterday we received about four requests for assistance in relation

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Speaker 4: to basically water pulling in people's backyards because of the

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Speaker 4: amount of rainfall that's been experienced. And two of those

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Speaker 4: jobs required sandbagging, which is to stop water from entering houses.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Like how much rain are we talking or

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Speaker 1: how much sorry water are we talking here?

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Speaker 4: Well, if there's not good drainage in people's backyards, it

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Speaker 4: tends to pull, like with that amount of rain that

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Speaker 4: one of them was also just requiring tarping over a

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Speaker 3: So I like today we've got a.

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Speaker 4: Request going out to our volunteers now to look at

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Speaker 4: a job out at Nightcliff. Also, I think water pooling

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Speaker 4: in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna ask what areas is that water

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Speaker 1: pooling sort of happening?

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Is it more in the northern suburbs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, mostly in northern suburbs, So there I think there

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Speaker 4: were jobs at Nightcliff. So we've got one again today, Alawa,

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Speaker 4: And I can't remember off the top of my head

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Speaker 4: job at Marara Caravan Park and that was a taping job.

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Speaker 1: And look, I guess into emergency services, like you're not

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Speaker 1: just going out, you know, and like you're helping people

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Speaker 1: who are actually in need, particularly with that pooling and

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Speaker 1: even by the sounds of it, with that tarping job.

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Speaker 2: Aren't you.

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Speaker 1: Are we expecting I know you said with the with

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Speaker 1: that tropical low, it's going to kind of be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see what happens there. It always is when there's

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Speaker 1: a tropical low. But are we sort of expecting that,

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Speaker 1: you know, that that may drag away that weather and

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Speaker 1: things might calm down a little.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: For Darwin residents, you know, we'll experience like we'll still

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Speaker 4: get rain, might be a lot lighter than what we

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Speaker 4: have received over the last few days. But for top

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Speaker 4: enders like monitoring where this low is developing and where

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Speaker 4: it's tracking, like be always mindful that there is a

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Speaker 4: moderate chance that it will turn into a tropical cyclone.

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Speaker 4: So you know, people being prepared with their emergency kits

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Speaker 4: is what's recommended prior to you know, the tropical low

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Speaker 4: ready for the potential for a tropical cyclone ofform.

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Speaker 1: And is that the advice for territories this morning. Really

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Speaker 1: make sure you've got your cyclone kit ready just in case.

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Speaker 2: But it's good to be prepared, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, be prepared and also just remember it while it's

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Speaker 4: a tropical low, comes with tropical low is a lot

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Speaker 4: not always be prepared for. So you know, it's not

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Speaker 4: about not driving through flooded waters all the time.

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Speaker 3: It's also you.

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Speaker 4: Know, there's potential for being isolated for long periods of time,

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Speaker 4: So those people out in those remote areas is make

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Speaker 4: sure that you're stocked, well stocked, you know, in preparation

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, I know that we're all keeping quite

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Speaker 1: a close eye on the you know, on the on

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Speaker 1: the roads, the NT road report. We'll all be keeping

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Speaker 1: a close eye on the Bureau of Meteorology, and we

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Speaker 1: are going to catch up with the Bureau of Meteorology

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Speaker 1: this morning after eleven o'clock. So flur Oh, kind of

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Speaker 1: the Director of int Emergency Services, really appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie, thank you