Alfred

[nightster]

Good luck to all of us in Alfreds path - I'm as ready as I can be. As far as flooding, I'm lucky I live on a hill but I'm very open to wind being built on the side of a fairly steep exposed hill, and watching the trees getting whipped around I'm expecting the power will go out again soon - take care all

 

[Tragic Eagle]

Stay safe!

 

[globaleagle]

I have family in the Tweed Heads area and they've done 'all they can do' so hopefully they stay safe and the winds 'aren't as bad as predicted' which happens a fair bit.

I've noticed a lot of almost full sandbags on various reports - that's not how they should be but it's a bit late now.

Stay safe ya yobbos (especially if you've joined the tipping comp!!)

 

[manlyfan76]

Getting closer, slowly.
Going to do a bit more preparation today around the house.

 

[Eagle 1]

Getting closer, slowly.
Going to do a bit more preparation today around the house.

Where do you live manlyfan ?
I'm at Coorparoo, in a bigish townhouse, we have small tree's at the back where a few possums live. We have set up some empty boxes on the back verandah for them. We also feed a lot of butcher birds, no doubt they'll be wanting some cover as well. Bit of a Noahs Ark thing going on here...lol. looking like Friday arvo to early Sat morn it'll hit. Keep safe everyone.

 

[The '47ers]

 

[The '47ers]

Where do you live manlyfan ?
I'm at Coorparoo, in a bigish townhouse, we have small tree's at the back where a few possums live. We have set up some empty boxes on the back verandah for them. We also feed a lot of butcher birds, no doubt they'll be wanting some cover as well. Bit of a Noahs Ark thing going on here...lol. looking like Friday arvo to early Sat morn it'll hit. Keep safe everyone.

@Eagle 1 you can take this unit too if you want, he's up.in my Jacaranda tree and sure as hell I'm not going to try and evict him!

 

[manlyfan76]

Where do you live manlyfan ?
I'm at Coorparoo, in a bigish townhouse, we have small tree's at the back where a few possums live. We have set up some empty boxes on the back verandah for them. We also feed a lot of butcher birds, no doubt they'll be wanting some cover as well. Bit of a Noahs Ark thing going on here...lol. looking like Friday arvo to early Sat morn it'll hit. Keep safe everyone.

Carrara, not far from AFL stadium but a lot higher up.

 

[manlyfan76]

Track Alfred's wind speed here:

Track wind speeds live as Cyclone Alfred approaches coast

Cyclone Alfred is due to cross the coast on Friday morning. Track wind speeds at key locations in the cyclone zone.

www.abc.net.au

 

[The '47ers]

I'm a ways out of Toowoomba but I heard all the schools there are closed!
Not making light of the situation of my coastal friends, but jeez out here they certainly can overreact.
(I'm a born and bred Nth Qlder so maybe I'm just being blaise or whatever that word is)

 

[Eagle 1]

@Eagle 1 you can take this unit too if you want, he's up.in my Jacaranda tree and sure as hell I'm not going to try and evict him!

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Lol..we have a blue-tongue in the corner amongst the pot plants as well. We also have 2 bush turkeys who drop in fairly regularly for some seeds. Bit of an Oasis close to Bris City.

 

[Leho]

This was Pottsville beach yesterday, and it’s only getting worse

 

[Cameron]

I work at chermside its a ghost town today. Stay safe people.

 

[Eagle 1]

latest report has C Alf doing a slight U turn out to sea again, then heading back to the coastline. Any chance Alf could spin it's self out ?

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Redland Bay for me , currently listed for a direct hit ( although it’s very likely to move either further north or further south).

We live in a relatively new estate ( 9 years old ) which has excellent drainage.

I’m almost at the bottom of a slight hill , but there’s a massive drain right in front of me ( both sides of the road ) and even in the heaviest rain we’ve seen in those 9 years it’s never been an issue.

And our small back yard has excellent drainage , there are 4 largish drains at the back and another two at the front , again we’ve never had an issue BUT this is a very different beast.

Everything that was outside , is now inside.

No caravan that was sold and picked up on Tuesday , but we do have the caravan “ port “ with a shade sail structure that’s rated to 125kph so if it stays a 2 or goes back to a 1 we should be okay.

Fingers crossed I’ll have power , or at least internet of some description to watch Saturdays game.

It’s currently due to cross at some point late Friday or Saturday morning.

The reason this is such a “ thing “ isn’t the strength of it , it’s the fact that it’s hitting the largest population centre of any cyclone in Australian history.

North Queensland & WA cop these every year but the biggest potential population centre one could hit would be Townsville , with about 200,000 people.

This is hitting South East Queensland with a population of up to 3 MILLION , & it’s almost guaranteed to hit between the Sunny & Gold Coast , affecting virtually every single person living in SEQ.

We are as prepared as we can be, fingers crossed we don’t get any damage.

 

[globaleagle]

This was Pottsville beach yesterday, and it’s only getting worse

I knew the guy who ran the Tru-value at Pottsville years ago.

1 - I'm not sure he's still there
2 - I don't think that's relevant right now.

 

[nightster]

latest report has C Alf doing a slight U turn out to sea again, then heading back to the coastline. Any chance Alf could spin it's self out ?

I mentioned that to my fam about an hour ago too .... it'd be nice

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

I mentioned that to my fam about an hour ago too .... it'd be nice

That would be excellent

 

[wombatgc]

We’ve got a lot of big trees, but none that would reach the house (hopefully). Down the backs the worry. Plenty of big trees close to the shed.
Tbh I’m more worried about the wildlife, especially the ones that hangout at our place. Butcher birds, Magies (with a newbie), The Kookaburras (they too have got a young-in). I had a visit from Butler the border collie from up the road this morning. I feed him cat biscuits, loves them. Two wood ducks down in the pond. Mrs Duck has a buggered leg and hobbles around, while Mr Duck stands protecting her. I’m going to try and leave the garage door open for as long as I can, so they have somewhere to shelter and eat/drink.

 

[manlyfan76]

Saw a mob of about 25 bin chickens flying overhead earlier. Heading west.