I work in an inner city office block in brisbane. got a meeting today with IT, Office manager, Property and also the landlord. I’m expecting us to close tomorrow afternoon for the rest of the week
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Debbie and Oswald we lost power for a week in suburban Brisbane. I wouldnt be surprised if that happens again.
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I’ve received emails from the RSPCA to let volunteers know we don’t have to come in for our shifts if conditions worsen,heavy rain or strong winds.Also they don’t want any of us wildlife drivers on the roads in these conditions either . and they’re advising staff members to work from home if they can from tomorrow.
Hoping everyone up in SE QLD and Northern NSW stays safe over the next few days (and I hope things don’t end up as extreme as first predicted). The very last thing places like Lismore need is another devastating flood.
I know that there are some people who (for whatever reason) have a “she’ll be right mate” approach to this in the other thread- while I admire the optimism that’s absolutely no reason to be bagging others out for taking precautions or expressing concern- it may very well be a non-event but better safe than sorry in my view.
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This. This is the truth. A cyclone has never hit a large area in Australia with huge populations like Alfred will, so people are right to prep. The last thing we want is bad things to occur.
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It is also very possible that a weather system such as this will have very uneven impacts depending on which area you are in. Just because one area might get by relatively unscathed (and I dearly hope everywhere does get through this unscathed) doesn’t mean that another won’t get hit by either destructive wind, flooding, or both.
As an example- I have a strong personal connection to Lismore having lived there some time back- sure, you won’t need sandbags if you’re up on the hill but I’d be certainly taking precautions if I was living anywhere west of Diadem St.
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In light of certain threads being very… tense:
Alfred’s coming, no matter what. You can moan as much as you want here, provided you drop emergency warnings as needed.
The other thread is for 9, 7 & 10 reporters standing on the gateway bridge yelling STAY INDOORS.
That reminds me, what is the closures (if any) around the Gateway Bridge, given its height.
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It was upgraded to a category 2 overnight and is likely to maintain that intensity as it approaches the coast.
Clearly forecasts of 700mm of rain and strong winds are a safety risk
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March 3? When was that? Oh yeah… yesterday’s news…
Some of our local know-it-alls seem to think everything is a conspiracy by Big Sandbag.
As a long time southeast Queensland resident who lost power for weeks during Oswald and also has experienced cyclones, please don’t listen to people saying it’s a beat up.
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Just an absolute and total beat-up.
Now there are many on here who will tell you ‘at least we warned you, even if it just turned out to be just a fizzer’.
But I don’t know, Here in South East Queensland we have had plenty of predictions of the end of the world and yet they have never happened.
I’m sitting here in the Scenic Rim and not worried in the slightest. The whole thing is a beat-up. Always is.
Imagine not listening to experts…
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A bit of a beginner question with radars. The radar currently does not look “that” bad.
That could change quickly in 24 hrs. I would expect out to sea you could see lots of red or “black”.
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Rain is not the only issue, winds, location of the eye and speed of movement are just as important. The slower it moves, the worse it will be, especially for the major population centres.
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It’s still at least 24 hours from hitting. What is occurring now is the SE’ly stream showers on the western side of the TC. Even so it’s still pretty wild and woolly, as Alfred has quite a large wind field.
The real rain may occur after the system moves inland and degenerates into a tropical low. Then the winds will turn NE’ly and pump in loads of tropical moisture. As that lifts over the ranges in SEQ and NE NSW we may see some gargantuan rain totals.
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Thank you your posts are very informative. Lets hope not too much damage is done.