🌀 🌀 Tropical Cyclone Alfred 🌀 🌀 QLD / NSW

[Billy ray]

If you have time, catch tram to broadbeach final stop. Then get on 777 bus (express) to burleigh heads.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Funny thing is that a "classy" pub was shut yesterday, but a very scrubby one was still open. Today even the scrubby one is closed.

The pavilion?

 

[Xtreme]

If you have time, catch tram to broadbeach final stop. Then get on 777 bus (express) to burleigh heads.

I've been around the area, it's nice.

Also one of my funny misadventure moments, a few hours after one of my buffet breakfast jaunts. I was nearby a shopping center (Runaway bay) and decided to pop in as my stomach was a bit off. Wasn't a bad stroll around after lol!

The pavilion?

We've probably got different definitions of classy and scrubby

 

[Shell]

Im. So. Bored.

Me too mate

 

[peternorth]

 

[SportsCentre]

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"what are we going to do with all these pre-prepared news headlines promoting fear and panic?"

"what would Covid do? PUBLISH PUBLISH PUBLISH"

 

[Xtreme]

The wind is still nuts, 60-90kph

I'm used to the high winds when Victoria goes another nuts with wild weather. But the constant noise and pressure here is something else. The building here is very wi dy. Assume it's coming from the stairwell, but because of the pressure it's harder to open the apartment door from the inside - and the noise varies between a weakened vacuum vs an old style kettle when it's boiling (the whistling noise).

The news is crazy it's been constant today. They had a 30 minute break on 7 before.... to show the regular 5pm news (syd/melb) now it's 4:30 and it's back to QLD for cyclone cyclone cyclone news.

 

[Billy ray]

Wind down where i am further south has been consistently blowing all day at 50-70kmh, with gusts at 90

Its just finally crossed onto mainland i just read and that rain off out to sea will swamp us all as the eye moves west

 

[cats_09]

This isn't good news - hope they're able to quickly free the two who remained trapped at the time of the initial reports and that all are ok

 

[magpie_marty]

Can rain water in a small room smell like a dead fish?
Serious question
Been laying towels and replacing them daily

 

[peternorth]

Can rain water in a small room smell like a dead fish?
Serious question
Been laying towels and replacing them daily

its probably sea water in your room

 

[magpie_marty]

its probably sea water in your room

Makes perfect sense thanks peter

 

[Xtreme]

Still 49-69k winds.

 

[Roobs321]

those shots of the beach erosion with the gc skyline in shot are strikingly severe in aspect. not one for the postcards.

I grew up down the road from the beach (nsw south coast) and used it almost daily and that erosion wasn’t uncommon. Sometimes short term, occasionally chronic after a series of storms, those escarpments a few metres high, but Mother Nature always repairs it eventually. Sandbars are a little similar, the character of a particular surf point can be entirely changed for a considerable period.

 

[Cuzz09]

can they fill that sand in?

how long would it take?

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[Ghost Patrol]

can they fill that sand in?

how long would it take?

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Problem is, all that sand has drifted North. There is a sand pumping system in place, but that's mainly designed to keep the Gold Coast Seaway and Tweed Bar from clogging up with sand, with some capability to pump some sand back to Surfers Paradise.

 

[Xtreme]

can they fill that sand in?

how long would it take?

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Can take 12 months for it to go back to what it was (according to the news).

Spotted this morning 4 people having a dip in the water... it would be a shame if they got sick from it, smart arses!!!

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Redcliffe with 105kmh gusts last night. 270mm of rain in hervey bay in a couple hours

 

[Billy ray]

Flooding beginning in many places.

 

[Billy ray]

Absolute bucketing at mine right now.
Some more photos

 

[Xtreme]

Thought I'd venture down to the lower level and check out the Cafe/restaurant that has reopened.

Should have taken pictures (kinda thought it'd be awkward snapping away with people all around).

But it's like a freezer down there - a combination of the ceiling fans they had going plus being exposed to the elements their "windows" are not windows and rain water is coming in with assistance by the wind. Thus a lot of the walking pathways are slip and slides.

I'm safer in my isolation bubble until the weather settles or I wait until I officially leave

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

"what are we going to do with all these pre-prepared news headlines promoting fear and panic?"

"what would Covid do? PUBLISH PUBLISH PUBLISH"

Never let a crisis go to waste. "Cyclones are more frequent and more intense!!!! Get behind our renewables push to save the planet!!!"

Erm, windmills and panels wouldn't survive a cyclone, would they?

Turns out it turned into a rain depression while it farted around offshore for days. Power outages were inevitable while councils persist with overhead wires in a heavily wooded environment. (Mine was off for 36 hours.) Now it seems south of the Tweed and up around Hervey Bay are the most susceptible to flooding as the rain continues steadily.

 

[peternorth]

Redcliffe with 105kmh gusts last night. 270mm of rain in hervey bay in a couple hours

is it pronounced harvey or "her-vey"?

 

[Billy ray]

 

[Big Sauce 21]

is it pronounced harvey or "her-vey"?

Pronounced Harvey