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Speaker 1: Well, we know the Northern Territory Emergency Services is urging

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Speaker 1: all territories to prepare for high risk weather and the

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Speaker 1: Bureau of Meteorology is also reminding the community that the

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Speaker 1: period from October to April is the territory's peak time

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Speaker 1: for heat waves, severe thunderstorms, tropical lows, cyclones, flooding, and

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Speaker 1: particularly in the south, bush fires. Now joining us on

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Speaker 1: the line is the Deputy Director of Northern Territory Emergency Services,

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Speaker 1: Ian Carlton. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Ian, Good morning Katie, and good morning to you listeners.

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Speaker 1: And I understand that the Bureau is predicting the first

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Speaker 1: significant rains of the wet season could be likely earlier

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Speaker 1: than usual. What's the prediction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is correct, And we received information from the

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Speaker 2: Bureau the other day and they have released their forecast

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Speaker 2: over the next few months. So yes, that is the

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Speaker 2: information that we received as well as your listeners and

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Speaker 2: on the bureau website.

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Speaker 1: So does that just means sort of more rain earlier

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Speaker 1: or are we talking like real significant rain? What are

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Speaker 1: we thinking's going to happen?

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Speaker 2: Look, it's hard to predict the amount of rain that

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Speaker 2: will fall, where it will fall, from time to time,

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Speaker 2: and obviously, as he said, with the build up of

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Speaker 2: the high risk weather season and the storms coming in,

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Speaker 2: they can be short charp and intensive with lots of rainfall.

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Speaker 2: And we've seen that over the last few days in

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Speaker 2: the state with that flash flooding that has occurred. So

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Speaker 2: that's our message that we're getting out. It's the start

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Speaker 2: of the high risk weather season and reminding people within

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Speaker 2: the northern territory that we don't escape that as well,

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Speaker 2: and we are subject to those storms and the flash flooding.

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Speaker 2: So start that preparation now. Yeah, only a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks till November and when that season kicks off, So

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Speaker 2: start preparations now. It's getting ready for the bush by

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Speaker 2: season in other areas and down south as you mentioned here,

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Speaker 2: Start that preparation now so it's easier and you don't

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Speaker 2: get issues with your house.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you don't get well, that's sort of thing

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Speaker 1: you don't want to get. You don't want to get

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Speaker 1: stuck in a difficult situation. What are some of the

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Speaker 1: things we do need to make sure that we do

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Speaker 1: to be prepared.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's really getting a household emergency kit. We need

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Speaker 2: people to make sure that they've got that household emergency kit,

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Speaker 2: the essential items, battery operated radio so they can listen

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Speaker 2: and get those emergency warning those messages at the updates,

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Speaker 2: enough food and water for three days. Not everyone will

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Speaker 2: get an emergency service vehicle to their house. You look

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Speaker 2: at Darwin, one hundred thousand people, one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand people, Palmerston's seventy five thousand people living down there

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Speaker 2: sort of thing, or the numbers. There's not seventy five

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Speaker 2: thousand emergency service vehicles, so not everyone will get one

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Speaker 2: to their house when they call it. So it's being

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Speaker 2: sustainable for the first three days, for seventy two hours.

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Speaker 2: So that's the priority work being undertaken by the emergency services.

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Speaker 2: Getting roads, open access to hospitals, various other places. Getting

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Speaker 2: that sort of then we'll prioritize those, get the priorities

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Speaker 2: lot of the time it's that planning that people do

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Speaker 2: in the preparation beforehand, cutting trees back, cleaning guards instead,

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Speaker 2: got them looking out for their yard so they don't flood,

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Speaker 2: tying things down when the winds are coming in and

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Speaker 2: when the Bureau issues warning. So if we're going to

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Speaker 2: get high winds, put trampling away, tie things down. Our furniture,

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Speaker 2: outside furniture, put that away so it doesn't get blown

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Speaker 2: away and pull damage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and that's the thing, and you don't want

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Speaker 1: you don't want that damage cause. But also if you're

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Speaker 1: worried about it. If you know, if there is a

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Speaker 1: cyclones that we are potentially going to see this season.

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Speaker 2: They're saying it for the northern an average season is

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Speaker 2: likely and on their tropical cyclone page from the Bureau

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Speaker 2: site that could be long term average number of cyclones

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Speaker 2: it's a hidden myth. And it's once again that as

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Speaker 2: a hit and miss. So it's once again it's that

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Speaker 2: listening to the Bureau, listening to the emergency Service. The

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Speaker 2: Austrailian Warning System is being utilized nationally now for floodstorm, cyclone,

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Speaker 2: the Australian Warning System. So it's once again a reminder

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Speaker 2: Warning System. Google that, look at secure nt there's links

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Speaker 2: there to the Australian Warning System and knowing what that

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Speaker 2: advice is, the Watch and Act and the emergency warning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing. Making sure that you're aware of

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Speaker 1: then what to do should one of those one of

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Speaker 1: those weather systems be you know, should they sort of

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Speaker 1: come to fruition. It's a difficult juggle at this time

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Speaker 1: of the year though as well, isn't it. I Mean

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Speaker 1: going to flick over soon and we'll be more concerned

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Speaker 1: about wet weather. But those heat waves, it's been really

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Speaker 1: quite hot and there's plenty that you need to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you're doing as well to keep yourself safe

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Speaker 1: in those conditions.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct. An end t help for doing a

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Speaker 2: great job and getting that messaging out to the community.

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Speaker 2: And I've just urged people to follow and look at

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Speaker 2: secure entity and the health websites to get that information

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Speaker 2: of what they aren't required to do and keeping themselves

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Speaker 2: safe there well.

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Speaker 1: Deputy Director of Northern Territory Emergency Services Ian Carlton, good

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Speaker 1: to speak with you this morning. I really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie, and thank you for your listeners. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: just remind people to be prepared for that high risk

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Speaker 2: weather season that comes in. It's a long four or

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Speaker 2: five months. Don't be complacent. If we haven't had it

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Speaker 2: for a while or yet, I don't need to do this.

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Speaker 2: They can spring up any time and go through and

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Speaker 2: catch us as where ye as we say, be prepared,

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Speaker 2: know the weather, the risk, have a plan and.

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Speaker 1: Double check what's in your cyclone kiss.

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Speaker 2: Well exactly, it's have a look at some of those

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Speaker 2: perishables and make sure that they're still in date. Have

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Speaker 2: that radio. As we said, what else are we looking at?

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Speaker 2: Your first aid kit, medications, prescriptions, nappy dog food, cat food,

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Speaker 2: a bowl and lead to keep your animals and probably

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Speaker 2: the medical prescriptions is the biggest one of knowing what

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Speaker 2: medication you're on, the dosage you're on, the name it is,

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Speaker 2: so that and have a photocopy of your script so

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Speaker 2: if you're caught out and you're at an evacuation center

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Speaker 2: least you know what you're on that you can and

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Speaker 2: go through and have that information.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good point. Ian, Great to speak with you

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Speaker 1: this morning. I really appreciate your time. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, Thanks good stuff. Daisy