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Tropical Cyclone Alfred is less than 36 hours away from hitting the Australian coast. It is expected to make landfall early on Friday morning, with Queensland Premier David Crisafulli warning it could hit overnight at high tide, increasing the danger for residents. | *Subscribe and 🔔: http://9Soci.al/KM6e50GjSK9*  ►*Chapters in this video:* 0:00 Final preparations in Queensland for Cyclone Alfred 4:20 Fears Cyclone Alfred could intensify to category 3 5:47 Schools, businesses, public transport close for Cyclone Alfred 9:24 Stradbroke Island braces for Cyclone Alfred 12:26 The ‘dirty side’ of cyclones explained 14:09 Queensland premier’s warning as Cyclone Alfred looms 15:45 Airport impacts  16:50 Low-lying areas already facing flooding from Alfred 18:10 Fears Cyclone Alfred will bring ‘three-in-one’ disaster  *Get more breaking news at 9News.com.au: http://9Soci.al/iyCO50GjSK6*  FOLLOW 9News Australia ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9News/ ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9news/  Join 9News for the latest in news and events that affect you in your local city, as well as news from across Australia and the world.  #9News #BreakingNews #NineNewsAustralia #9NewsAUS

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00:00Good evening from the banks of the Brisbane River where there is an uneasy

00:04quiet tonight. New tracking confirms tropical cyclone Alfred is on a

00:09collision course with Brisbane due to make landfall around four o'clock Friday

00:13morning. The time to prepare is almost over. Schools have been ordered to close,

00:17some airports too, with tens of thousands of homes facing potential flooding in a

00:22worst-case scenario. What's more, there is concern tonight the system may

00:27intensify into a powerful category 3 storm. We have reporters stationed right

00:32across the southeast with up-to-the-minute information. Josh Bavis

00:36begins our special coverage. Beautiful one day, cyclonic the next. Beachside car

00:44parks don't stand a chance for what's coming. For some vehicles it's already

00:49too late. Southeast Queensland beaches are roaring as cyclone Alfred approaches

00:54millions of residents. You will get through this if you stay connected, if

01:01you do the right things and if you put in place those preparations now. Boards

01:04broken, beaches washed away and the cyclone is still at least a day away.

01:09Current predictions have it coming into Moreton Bay as a category 2 system early

01:15Friday morning before slamming into Brisbane's bayside suburbs. The safest

01:20place for you is in your home and that's the vast majority of Queenslanders.

01:24Emergency alerts are being issued for residents across multiple council areas.

01:28Heavy rain and dangerous swells and wind gusts as high as 155 kilometres an hour

01:35are possible. In Brisbane tens of thousands of properties are at risk of

01:40flooding. Prepare, take this seriously. This is a rare event. We'll provide

01:46whatever resources are required. In Victoria Point, lifetime fisherman Dave

01:51Thompson's prepared. He knows how quickly the weather can turn. I've always said if

01:56we get a cyclone sit out the front here on the top of the right big tide, there's

02:01every chance we could get a little bit bigger surge and that's what we're

02:04preparing for. Usually picturesque seaside restaurants are now sitting

02:08straight in Alfred's path. We've never had a cyclone actually directly hit us

02:12before so it's all fairly new so we'll see what happens. Garden walls are being

02:17converted into makeshift levees to keep ocean swells out. The high tide marks

02:22pretty high over there already and if we get a meter on top of that that's a

02:26concern. That's why we're trying to keep the water out of the property. Stay calm

02:30to listen to the advice and just prepare as much as you can. Near the spit on the

02:36Gold Coast teenagers learned the hard way about defying orders to stay out of

02:41the surf. What are you getting arrested for? Apparently obstructing police. Daily

02:46total rainfall could reach up to 400 millimetres. Southeast dams already hold

02:51plenty of water at Wyvernhoe, Somerset, North Pine and Hins Dam but we're being

02:57assured they can hold almost double their capacity. No releases are planned

03:02for now but that could change. At the moment if the rain falls in the Lockyer

03:08River catchments or the Bremer River catchments it will fill up those areas

03:12and we'll push that down into the Brisbane River. Staff will be working

03:15overtime to keep critical services like water, power and telecommunications

03:20online but in a cyclone there's no guarantees. Straight to Josh Bavis now at

03:27Cleveland. Josh take us through the very latest tracking tonight. Well Melissa the

03:33prediction from the Bureau at the moment has a category 2 cyclone just scraping

03:38north of me here where I am at Cleveland. Scraping the islands as well

03:43and then slamming into the bayside suburbs on Friday morning. It's expected

03:48to then track over the Brisbane Airport across the northern suburbs before

03:52heading further out west. If it does hit at 4 a.m. when they're predicting that's

03:57a problem because the high tide is at about 3.30 a.m. so therefore there would

04:02be inundation. Melissa these advices will begin coming out from the Bureau every

04:07hour very soon. That means that people can stay up to date with the information.

04:13There will come a time tomorrow where people will have to shelter in place.

04:16Melissa. Josh thank you. Well we'll go live to weather expert Gary Youngbury

04:21now who's at Surfers Paradise. Gaz there is a possibility Alfred could strengthen

04:26further. Oh Melissa most definitely because he's slowed down the ETA has

04:32been moved back to about 4 a.m. Friday morning and with him slowing down that

04:36is certainly more favorable for him to intensify further and just before

04:41impact there is a chance it could become a category 3 tropical cyclone. Look

04:45mountains of whitewater already have been pounding our beaches. The tide

04:49running out at the moment with high tide today at around midday the waves were

04:53actually smashing up on the end of the beach. You can see the protected dunes.

04:56Well the fence has been smashed. The water's been all the way up flowing over

05:00the walkway and the cycleway. Now that high tide today will be about half a

05:05metre lower than the one we're expecting in a Friday morning. Combine that with

05:09the storm surge and we could see some of Surfers Paradise Beach up onto the

05:13Glitter Strip. That is the concerns particularly with him strengthening

05:16further. So rainfall today as well. Well there's been heavy showers at times.

05:21Burst of showers. They'll increase overnight and that expected rainfall

05:26showing well and truly on the radar the heaviest falls starting tomorrow, Friday,

05:30Saturday and even into Sunday. Some incredible totals heading our way. The

05:35wind still hanging off at the moment but we're expecting to really kick in

05:38overnight. More on your local forecasts and temperatures what we had today

05:42coming up a little later. Melissa. Talk to you then. Thanks Gary. Well much of the

05:47southeast is shutting down tonight. Schools are closed for the rest of the

05:51week as are thousands of non-essential businesses and as the winds pick up it

05:55will become harder to get around with public transport to pause and major

05:59roads to close. An eerily quiet peak hour in the CBD. Many workers sent home early

06:07as the window to prepare narrows. In the last 15 years now I have never seen the

06:11city this quiet. Many non-essential businesses already shutting up shop and

06:15boarding up. Schools out for this week at least. State schools closed in Noosa, the

06:21Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, the Redlands, Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, the scenic rim

06:27and parts of the Darling Downs. Many parents welcoming the decision. I think

06:32I'd prefer my children at home and where I can keep them safe and they feel

06:35comfortable as well so I'm sure they're not going to be too worried about

06:38staying home for a couple days. I don't really mind it's all about the safety of

06:41everybody involved and keeping off the roads and all that sort of stuff.

06:44Independent and Catholic schools expected to follow suit. Parents urged

06:48to check if unsure. An emergency declaration has been made for child care

06:53services to help ease the strain on parents. The service can continue to get

06:58child care subsidy. The service can waive gap fees for families and children will

07:04get unlimited allowable absences. Most centres opting to close for safety

07:09reasons. Parents should check with their provider. Both Coles and Woolworths say

07:14their stores will remain open for as long as it's safe to do so. Normal

07:18trading hours apply. Stock is being replenished frequently. As the weather

07:23intensifies getting around is going to get harder. Queenslanders need to be

07:27prepared for major roads and bridges to be closed. The Gateway Bridge will close

07:31once winds reach 90 kilometres an hour. Drivers strongly urged to avoid the

07:36Walter Taylor, Gobetween and Story bridges too. While pedestrians should

07:41keep off the Kangaroo Point, Indooroopilly and Breakfast Creek green

07:44bridges once the strongest winds set in. I don't want to see one single person

07:49electrocuted. I don't want to see one single person impacted by flying debris.

07:53The best way we can make that happen is for everyone to stay at home for the

07:57next two days at the very least. A red alert has been issued. All waterways

08:02between Double Island Point and Point Danger are now closed. All vessels must

08:07now be stationary in port or in berth until further notice. Elective surgeries

08:13have been cancelled for tomorrow and Friday at public hospitals but

08:17emergency departments will remain open. Ebony Cavallaro, Nine News. And the

08:24southeast continues to grind to a standstill tonight with public transport

08:28the next to shut down. Straight to Ebony in Brisbane City. Ebony, when will those

08:32services stop? Well as you can see Melissa, buses are still operating here

08:37in the CBD. They will continue to do so until the last service tonight. That is

08:41the same also for trains. They will continue to operate as normal until the

08:46last service tonight. TransLink does warn though, if the weather does

08:51deteriorate, they may need to suspend services before that moment. Now at this

08:56stage it does look unlikely, however I have noticed just in the last hour there

08:59have been some bus delays on the TransLink website. There have also been

09:03some issues on the Beenleigh line. We understand that that is due to a

09:07signaling fault and therefore is not weather related. But I guess the message

09:11there for people who are relying on public transport tonight is just make

09:15sure you're checking the very latest information before relying on that

09:18service. Thanks Ebony. Well before Alfred reaches the mainland it will collide

09:26with our islands including North Stradbroke Island. Clare Todd-Hunter is

09:30at point lookout tonight. How are locals preparing there? Well Melissa, this island

09:36is going to be one of the first areas to feel the full impact of Cyclone Alfred

09:40as it makes its way into the Queensland coast. The latest modelling from the

09:43Bureau of Meteorology showing that the eye of the storm will pass through

09:47exactly where I'm standing as it makes its way through. We have been feeling the

09:51impacts already this afternoon though. The winds increasingly intensifying

09:55minute by minute. We've been having some heavy rains as well pelting down coming

09:59in sideways though that has seemed to have eased off at least a little bit for

10:03now. But as you can see behind me too, the South Gorge is looking more like a

10:07washing machine tonight. We did hear from the Premier, David Christopher Foley earlier

10:10today saying 68 people had already been evacuated from Stradbroke Island. We

10:15spoke to a lot of the locals about how they are preparing to weather this storm.

10:19This isn't Lance Magnusson's first time riding out a cyclone on Stradbroke

10:25Island. When I went for the first cyclone in 71. And the threat of Category 2

10:30Alfred still isn't enough to sit this one out. So you haven't considered

10:34evacuating at all or heading back to the mainland? Oh no way. No you can't leave a

10:38boat like this alone. You know you've got to be here just in case something

10:42happens. How are you guys getting back? His houseboat brought in from its mooring

10:46anchored and secured to mangroves at five points at Dunwich. So far it's

10:51working. We don't know what's gonna happen but I think it'll be quite safe

10:55here. Over at Amity Point, Greg Litherland is doing all he can to protect his family

11:00home of eight decades after years of coastal erosion left it exposed. This is

11:06the first time that we've been threatened as much as what it is now.

11:11You're working with nature and you can't beat nature. Down the road, much the same

11:18story at Alan Chaplin's place. A lot of the local people just brought in their

11:23tree waste and bits of concrete and bessa blocks. His solution, a protective

11:29wall of debris hand-built at the edge of his property. It has helped it. The

11:35waves come up and hit it and just roll back down. And you feel like it'll offer

11:38protection throughout this system that's coming? I'm hoping I do. I'm not gonna

11:42hold my breath but I've got my fingers crossed. His next-door neighbours packing

11:46up and heading for the mainland. Have you been door-knocked at all here or told to

11:50evacuate? No, a couple of policemen came around yesterday. I've got

11:54nowhere else to go. Many more choosing to stay. We really feel we're quite safe

11:59here. Yeah, so we've just put everything away that could possibly fly. While at

12:06point-lookout, even as conditions deteriorate, more excitement than fear

12:11from some. Barrels be coming in soon so should be should be fun. I think what

12:16these boys are really looking forward to is the grass hill over there when it

12:20starts raining. Get the boogie boards out. Claire Todd-Hunter, Nine News. When the

12:26cyclone hits, some parts of the southeast will face more damaging winds and a

12:31higher potential for storm surge than others. Tim Avia joins us from the studio

12:34to explain. You'll often hear that cyclones have a so-called dirty side

12:40where the potential for damage is higher and here in Queensland that's almost

12:44always on the southern side of the system. It's all to do with the cyclone's

12:48forward momentum combining with the direction of the winds. It means that

12:53those on the southern side can experience winds of up to 50% stronger

12:57than those on the north where the winds are blowing in the opposite direction to

13:01the cyclone's forward track. The risk of storm surge is also greater on the south

13:06and with the Gold Coast likely to be on that side of this system, the City

13:11Council there has issued flooding alerts for 6,000 properties. You can see pretty

13:16much all of the coast will feel the effects all the way up through Logan.

13:20Authorities nominating Paradise Point, Hope Island, Jacob's Well, Southport,

13:26Labrador, Biggera Waters, Runaway Bay, Coombabar, Norwell, Carrara, Surface

13:31Paradise and Eleanora as the most likely to be affected. We've tried to prepare

13:37everyone so that they do understand that this looks like the most significant

13:42event in our city in terms of destructive winds and heavy rain that

13:48we've seen since 1954. In Brisbane, modelling shows there are 20,000 homes

13:54at risk of flooding with those by the beach including at Nudgee Beach in

13:58Brighton and also suburbs near the creek system such as Windsor, Ashgrove,

14:02Morningside, Rocklea and Oxley in particular all told to be prepared.

14:10For the very latest information tonight, let's go live to Emergency Services

14:13Headquarters at Kedron and Premier David Christophouli. Premier, thank you for

14:17joining us. You are getting around-the-clock briefings. How bad is

14:21this going to be? There's no doubt it's a serious threat, Melissa, but we have

14:28taken the precautions and we put the preparations in place and we're asking

14:32Queenslanders to do the same and overwhelmingly people have heeded the

14:35message. If you don't think you quite have at the moment, you still have time

14:39and it's the little things that you can do. Evaluate yourself of the information,

14:43find out if you are in one of those disaster zones, either from storm tide or

14:47or from a flooding event, but if you aren't and the majority of Queensland is

14:51in that case, just make sure you do the little things around your home which can

14:55improve it. So clean up the debris, make sure that you don't have leaves

14:59hanging over your property, make sure that you've got all your possessions in

15:02one box. It's those little things that make such a world of difference. If you

15:07have one message to Queenslanders tonight, what is it? That this is a real

15:13threat, but you will get through it and I've seen the resilience of Queenslanders

15:17at both ends of the state and the way that we deal with natural disasters.

15:22We are the best in the globe at it and I want Queenslanders to know that we have

15:26pre-positioned the things that will make the recovery so much easier. There won't

15:31be any daylight between the response and the recovery, but the greatest thing you

15:35can do now is do the little things, stay safe during the event and I've got every

15:39faith we'll get through this. Premier, thank you so much for your time tonight.

15:43Let's go live now to the Brisbane Airport where McKenna Bailey joins us.

15:47McKenna, have operations been impacted there?

15:52Well Melissa, as you can see behind me it's business as usual here at Brisbane

15:56Airport. Cancellations are however rolling in as Cyclone Alfred makes his

16:01presence known. The decision to cancel flights will strictly be made by Air

16:05Services Australia and individual airlines. At the moment Qantas and Jetstar

16:10flights to and from Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast will continue as planned.

16:14While flights to Ballina and Coffs Harbour have been suspended and Virgin

16:19will be operating on a limited schedule here from Brisbane until 6 p.m.

16:23tomorrow night. Now the Gold Coast Airport made the decision this

16:27afternoon to close its doors from 4 o'clock as a matter of safety. It's

16:31unknown when the airport will reopen but the advice to passengers who are

16:36affected is to directly contact your airline. Melissa, as this situation

16:40continues to unfold we can expect further cancellations and delays over

16:45the coming days. I'm sure we'll see that McKenna, thank you.

16:49Well beaches on the Gold Coast they're already facing the wrath of Tropical

16:53Cyclone Alfred. Monster swell eating away at the sand causing major erosion

16:58along the coastline as Luke Bradman reports. Melissa it's high tide down here

17:03at Corumban and you can see areas around southeast Queensland in low-lying areas

17:08already starting to flood but I want to explain the significance of the storm

17:13surge we're expecting in the early hours of Friday morning when Alfred arrives.

17:17Today's high tide is 1.27 metres. Come Friday morning 1.55 metres, 30 centimetres

17:24higher but with a storm surge potentially as high as one metre and

17:29that means the early hours of Friday morning I could very well be standing in

17:33knee-deep water here in Corumban and low-lying areas down further on the

17:38beach could very well break their bank. Now as for the surf it is breathtakingly

17:43gigantic at the moment. If you look out here the Tweed Waverider buoy a short

17:48time ago saw swell up around nine metres. That's almost certainly about to

17:52increase. We could see swell up around 15 metres which would mean waves as big as

17:57six metres pounding our beaches. That's major erosion Melissa, the sort of

18:03erosion that may take our beaches years to recover from.

18:07Luke, thank you.

18:09Good evening. There are fears tonight Cyclone Alfred is shaping up to be a

18:13three-in-one natural disaster bringing a devastating storm surge, powerful winds

18:19then unrelenting rain. The rare storm is now tracking to hit Brisbane head-on

18:24with vulnerable communities down into northern New South Wales being warned to

18:29start evacuating now. Mark Burroughs begins our coverage.

18:35Corumban Beach on the Gold Coast washing into the car park this afternoon.

18:41A cyclone surge set to be repeated up and down the coast.

18:49Brisbane, 2.5 million people, a city trying to sandbag itself from a cyclone armed with a

18:57triple threat, punishing gales, torrential rain and a devastating storm surge.

19:02This is a rare event to have a tropical cyclone in an area that is not

19:09classified as part of the tropics. The latest tracking shows the category 2

19:13cyclone crossing just south of Brisbane Friday morning around 7 a.m. From Gympie

19:20down to Taree, a near 900 kilometre stretch will be lashed. In Brisbane new

19:26storm surge and flood modelling has some 20,000 homes at risk. Areas like Oxley

19:33and Windsor, low-lying suburbs and those near creeks, Boondal, Wilston and Rocklea

19:40before and after. We are facing the potential that a cyclone could in fact

19:46cross the coast on high tide in the middle of the night. Cyclone Alfred

19:52hasn't reached the coast but it's already causing trouble. At Corumban a

19:55cyclonic swell almost sweeping two cars out to sea. Coastal communities that will

20:01be hit are being told now is the time to evacuate if they don't want to ride

20:06out the storm at home. The cyclone is 300 kilometres off the coast and picking up

20:15speed. It's also gathering intensity and could land as a category 3. Brisbane is

20:20going into a chill. Tomorrow the Gateway Bridge will be closed, schools will shut

20:26for two days and starting tomorrow no public transport. 1,000 electricity crews

20:32are on standby to restore power. There's been a rush on supermarkets. Coles and

20:38Woolworths forced to work non-stop to restock shelves. It's going to devastate

20:43a lot of people all over again but then I'm feeling for Lismore as well because

20:47I mean how many times are they going to go through it? The seawall on the Gold

20:49Coast, enormous waves and still people taking risks. South of the border at

20:55Lennox Head people were being washed off the boardwalk. From today 264 schools

21:02on the North Coast will be closed. It means that we can have a little bit more

21:06time to batten down the hatches at home and prepare for the next two days at

21:11home with the kids. The Premier is urging anyone if they feel vulnerable staying

21:15at home to get out. The New South Wales Government's also setting up seven, seven

21:21evacuation centres that will be available from 4 p.m. this afternoon.

21:26They're sprinkled throughout the Northern Rivers area. All Qantas and Jetstar

21:30flights into Ballina have been cancelled. Gold Coast Airport closed at 4 p.m. today.

21:36The key message is we can expect from this systemic along with destructive

21:41winds, extensive flooding, most likely major flooding as well as the real

21:47potential for some very dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding. I

21:51cannot underestimate to the public the severity of this event that's about to

21:56encroach on us. From the border to the Mid North Coast a hundred thousand sand

22:01bags are available. At Coffs Harbour a heavy lift helicopter is in position to

22:06deliver supplies or evacuate the strand. Depending on what the storm's going to do

22:11maybe move us around Brisbane area. The cyclone is yet to hit but a New South

22:17Wales pre-planning for the recovery has already started. The message from the

22:22floods of 2022, recovery has to happen quickly.

22:26Mark Burrows, Nine News. All right North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane will be

22:32one of the first at-risk areas to feel the impact of the cyclone. Nine's Clare

22:36Todd-Hunter is at point lookout for us tonight. Clare, what are conditions like

22:41there at the moment? Well they really are starting to feel cyclonic at this point

22:47Peter. It didn't feel this way when we arrived earlier today. We did have some

22:51strong gusty winds and a bit of heavy rain as well but really only just in the

22:55last half hour or even in the last 10 minutes we've started getting some

22:59sideways rain coming in and it's really pelting, really pelting down. Feeling a

23:04little bit more like we were getting hit by sand or something but it's just this

23:07heavy, heavy rain. You can probably see behind me that the swell is really

23:10starting to take off as well. We did speak to some locals here today on

23:14Stradbroke Island. After evacuations took place overnight 68 people taken off the

23:19island, many choosing to stay. We spoke to a few who said they do feel safe and

23:23comfortable. We get big low-pressure systems come past here with 70 and 80

23:29knot winds in them. Have you been door knocked at all here or told to evacuate?

23:32Oh policemen come, a couple of police coming around yesterday. I've got nowhere else

23:36to go. We really feel we're quite safe here.

23:41Peter, Alfred, it is getting closer and closer. The latest modelling from the

23:45Bureau of Meteorology shows it'll hit, the eye of that cyclone will hit not far

23:49from here, just north of Stradbroke Island between here and Moreton Island

23:54as well. That's expected to happen in the early hours of Friday morning.

23:58We'll go to Alex Heinke now in Ballina. Alex, it's a tale of two towns. Some are

24:02leaving, but some are deciding to stay.

24:07And all of them, Pete, have a story to tell. Heavily influenced by what happened here

24:12three years ago. The last time the Northern Rivers region flooded, five

24:15people lost their lives and 4,000 homes were impacted. Now some of the people

24:21that I've spoken to today will not abandon their properties. They will not

24:25go away without a fight and as you'll see in just a second, the determination

24:30of this community is already on full display.

24:33When Paul Pateson's Lismore home started going under in the 2022 flood, he and a

24:39neighbouring family escaped in his boat. Once the water receded and the

24:44government offered to buy it back for half a million dollars, all of his

24:47neighbours accepted. Paul refused, renovating and even creating a floatable

24:54shed to protect his belongings.

24:56I'm not really prepared. I've built myself a little attic space up in the

25:01attic now so that I've got somewhere to go there if I have to. And the boat's

25:05always there. I've got a few boats actually. And yeah, if it comes in the

25:10house, I'll be doing it all over again. And history is repeating. It's now

25:15feared Lismore's levy may not hold. I cannot underestimate to the public the

25:20severity of this event that's about to encroach on us. In town, locals prepare.

25:25Businesses sandbagging and moving their stock to higher ground. This fruit shop

25:30has been flooded before. Its owner says he'll stay as long as he can. I only

25:35need about six hours and that will give me time to pack up and get out. But at

25:39the moment I won't be doing anything until we find that the rivers are

25:42starting to rise. Evacuation centres have been set up and hundreds of extra

25:47SES personnel have been mobilised. Our planning is for something akin to the

25:522022 natural disaster in Lismore, but I hope it's less than that. We have

25:57learnt from 2022 and we understand that speed to recovery is essential for the

26:02community. It's anticipation, it's anxiety, it's a high level of stress. I

26:08know you can't predict the weather and you can't forecast what's to come, but

26:11this is just way too close to what we had to live through in 2022. For people

26:16across the northern rivers, including here in Ballina, they are battle

26:19hardened when it comes to rain like this. Up to 800mm expected over the

26:24next four days, but the wildcard in this system is the wind. In Ballina, Mother

26:31Nature is putting on a show.

26:34One that could soon bring tears and trauma. Joanne and Stephen Samaridelli's

26:40home was flooded twice in 2022. They're preparing as best they can. It's more

26:46about the kids and they woke up in the middle of the night last night scared

26:50and crying and all that sort of stuff and it wasn't that bad last night and

26:54it's gonna get a lot worse. Indy and Levi Willoughby were also flooded out

26:58in 2022 from the river behind and the street out front. Repairs were only

27:04finished last year. They've taken a novel approach to stop at this time,

27:08including water-filled bladders. Yeah we had the walls built and the bladders

27:14made up just in case it happens again and here we are it could be happening

27:18again so pretty much just fill them up full of water and that should stop the

27:22strong winds pushing the water over over the wall and into the into the house.

27:25Hope for many ahead of a tense wait. In Lismore, Alex Heinke, Nine News.

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