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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ron Now with Coorios.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yesterday, watching the news on Channel nine, I saw they
shove Gary Youngbrey out onto a beach somewhere somewhere in
a storm.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's not fair, is it. Gary. Whenever there's a major
weather event, you're you know, you get forced into.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The middle of it.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I've got the raincoats and the gun boots all lined
up for this week, I can tell you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, So what do you think, like, what are the
odds that we're going to see something? And does it
really look like it's going to be Thursday?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Look, it's still looking at Thursday. This will chop and
change a little bit. With Alfred. It has already reintensified
to a category two. Again, it's sitting right at that
low end Category two high end Category one, so it
may sort of fluctuate between the two. But make no mistake,
the winds around the sort of eye of this stormer
around one hundred and thirty kilometers proud, So they're destructive wind.
(00:54):
So when it impacts and hits the coast, there will
be damage from wind. But I think that probably the
the biggest thing that you know, people will get complacent about.
It's the amount of rainfall. The last time a cyclone
hit southeast Queensland was nineteen fifty four. That was cool
and gatta. They called it the Great Gold Coast cyclone.
And it will be the amount of rainfall anything on
(01:15):
the southern side. So if it crosses north of Brisbane,
Brisbane through to the Gold Coast, we'll see, you know,
two hundred and four hundred and five hundred millimeters of
rain whereas anything on the northern side because the winds
pro take clockwise around the low precious system in the
southern hemisphere, so on the northern side they are more
offshore so that they're drier. And when you know, you're
(01:35):
probably only looking at sort of fifty and fifty milimeters
on the northern side.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Wow, that's dramatic. Is different?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And what are you doing at home, Gary, Like, is
there anything that you know? Are you putting your outdoor
furniture inside? Like, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, I am on the Gold Coast. I am sort
of on the twenty seventh floor. So everything on the
green that is definitely coming in, guys, there is no doubt. Look,
I've been in cyclones in Townsville where the Cever cyclones
have smashed the glass of balustrades and the doors I've
been laying in there. But that's a severe tropical cyclone
get up around four or five, but that's not likely
(02:11):
to occur. But look, most of this damage, there will
be damage on the coast and the wind, but it
will come from the flooding. Read the amount of rain.
I don't think you know Brisbane or Southeast Queen's Land,
and you can't pitchure the amount of rain. It's about
the fall fullness.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Guy, do you think events on this weekend and even
flights even like, do you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Think some of these stuff are going to be canceled?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, look, you know airports are definitely going to come
Thursday will come closed, there's no doubt. If it crosses
it sort of around Brisbane area or the Gold Coast
of there, the airport's affected. But events wise as across
the coast, sometimes they slow down, sometimes they speed up.
I think you can pretty much ride off Friday. It
looks at this point Saturday at the wind in wet.
(02:54):
It'll just be depend on the amount of flooding and
where that occurs or what events. But I mean, if
you're looking at events that are on grass, you could
pretty much say the gramity too, where that's sure right.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So we've got the Dolphins playing at Suncorp on Thursday
and the Lines are playing at the Gabber on Thursday.
They're both Thursday games.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So both Thursday. Now, the only way that that's possible
than likely to go ahead, as I said, is that
Alpha takes a bit of a turn and heads further
north or south. Once again, if it goes down southbound
towards the border the tweed, which is a possibility, and
it slows down coming in, there's a chance for that
to happen. But later in the day less that's likely
(03:35):
to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, so this is real. I was a little concerned
because the Queensland Premier, David Cresofuley had said residents should
do everything they can, including having tin food, making an
emergency kit, gathering up passports and clearing debris from properties.
And I'm thinking, is it going over the top, But
you're sort of saying maybe not.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, that's right. If you're right in that eye of
the storm, there'll be a lot of people that go
this was a visa because they've been on the northern
side and it hasn't hit but look what I can
tell you will happen. You know, we'll be anxious, will
be canning down. This will be such a slow way.
But as we get into Thursday and then all of
a sudden when things do get real and if you've
lost power and all of a sudden there's no food
(04:20):
on the grocery shelf and you know, so yeah, it
does occur. So look, I think you've still got time
to get all those plans in place, and I think
later today and Tuesday we can narrow down the actual
path of Alfred as we know they are sort of
you know, they do chop and change at that last
minute as well. But it's getting real and it's getting
close as well.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We'll be watching. Thank you Gary, thanks for your update. Mate.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Anytime, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Someone that we hopefully the lord of there again, because
we've got shrid dog with us now.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Good morning mate, Good morning mate.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So this sounds really serious.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Well, we need to take it seriously. We'd all love
to see this cyclone go in a different direction and
not you know, make landfall, but we need to prepare.
We've got a little bit of notice. Now there's obviously
a few days notice, but we need to make the
best of it. And that comes down to you know,
what you might need in your home, what you might
do in your home, and you're definitely you know, getting
(05:21):
ready for potential power failures is one of those things
you should consider because high winds mean that power lines
are likely to come down. You know, tree fall across
a power line, that's that's that's a thing that will
absolutely happen. And so be prepared for potential power failures
right across the Southeast Queensland and what that means in
(05:44):
terms of you know, having water, having food, and you know,
having torches with batteries and radios with batteries and that
sort of thing. You know, you'll you'll if you don't
have power, how do you charge your phone? These are
the sort of things that we're asking people to be
aware of, wells when it comes to out side the house,
making sure that you don't have vegetation that could cause
(06:06):
damage if at all possible. We've got free green waist
tipping at our full Resource Recovery centers and so that's
available for everyone that's nudgy. Fernie Grove, Willawong and Candler.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Say you're going to cut back a couple of trees, like,
do you need to do it today? What are you thinking?
What are we we've got a timeline.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well, we're told that things will start to get real
around Wednesday evening, so we've got you know, today tomorrow,
Wednesday morning at the latest. But obviously the sooner we
get prepared the better. There's another thing that is a
common feature of backyards in Brisbane. That's things like trampolines.
Those things can go flying in a cyclone and you
(06:51):
end up coming down on someone's roof or someone's car
or causing damage. So it's important that they're secured. So
there's a whole lot of things to think about. And
you know, Brisbane residents, we've experienced flooding in recent times,
but certainly most of us have never been through a
cyclone and so this is a bit different to what
we would normally expect. A Category two cyclone has winds
(07:15):
of up to one hundred and sixty nine kilometers an hour,
so that they're very strong winds.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Queenslanders are wooden houses on still a lot. I'm not
imagining they like cyclones very much. I mean, are there
people that should There's nothing you can actually do to
your house though, is there. You just have to wait
and see.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, look, it's you know, they've got different building standards
in the tropics because you know, they do get regular
cyclones in the tropics. But having said that, the Queenslander
has been designed for you know, all of Queensland effectively,
so I don't think that the Queensland style home is
particularly problematic. It's mainly you know, think about those strong winds.
(08:00):
What's going to go flying? What can we stop?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, it won't bring down houses like, it won't take
out it might take some rooms, but realistically it's more
the other stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, that's right. I mean, look, no one can say
what damage this could do. It's you know, we're only
speculating at this point in time because we don't know
whether the wind will be less or stronger than what's predicted.
The bom you know, as recently as forty eight hours
ago was expecting that it wouldn't make landfall, and now
(08:32):
they've told us it's likely to. So things can change
quite quickly over the next couple of days. And probably
the most important thing of all is for people to
be taking this seriously and listening to the news, listening
to updates that comes through, because if you're thinking that
this is not serious, that's when you know, we get
(08:53):
into trouble. So we've got to treat it as though
it's absolutely serious. We've got to treat it as though
it's coming. We all hope it will go in a
different direction, but we need to be prepared.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Are you prepping for floods?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Well, that's something that you could also happen as part
of the cyclone. The BOM said that there could be
rainfall between three hundred and six hundred millimeters that could
cause major flooding across southeast Queensland, and so that's a
serious consideration as well. So it's not just the wind,
it's also a large amount of rain in a short
(09:27):
period of time that we need to be ready for.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I should say, too, what can we do for you?
We're a radio station. Is there anything that we should
be doing to help our listeners? Help you guys?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think it just comes down to making sure that
everyone's aware that this is something we must take seriously.
So you know, often you think, oh, look it's a
false alarm. You know, the media outlets might be over
dramatizing it. No, no, no, this is something we have
to take seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And there's been a qu just quickly from Carlor of
Russell Island asking where can you get sam bags in
the Bay Islands. That's not your jurisdiction though, is it,
as Brisbane law.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Man, the Bayo Islands are in Redland City Council, but
I understand the Redland City Council website has a list
available of where you can get them from. But certainly
there's a lot of information available online through councils and
for residents in Brisbane if you're head to the Brisbane
City Council website, it's all there for same for Redlands
(10:30):
as well. Well.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thank you so much for joining us, mate. I know
you're very busy at the moment, and we may speak
to you again over the next couple of days if
things really ramp up.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Absolutely we'll keep in touch.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We've never heard him so serious. I'm going to take
it seriously, just based.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
On his voice.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I wanted to ask him about the passports, but it
was too serious.
Ron Now with Coorios.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yesterday, watching the news on Channel nine, I saw they
shove Gary Youngbrey out onto a beach somewhere somewhere in
a storm.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's not fair, is it. Gary. Whenever there's a major
weather event, you're you know, you get forced into.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The middle of it.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I've got the raincoats and the gun boots all lined
up for this week, I can tell you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, So what do you think, like, what are the
odds that we're going to see something? And does it
really look like it's going to be Thursday?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Look, it's still looking at Thursday. This will chop and
change a little bit. With Alfred. It has already reintensified
to a category two. Again, it's sitting right at that
low end Category two high end Category one, so it
may sort of fluctuate between the two. But make no mistake,
the winds around the sort of eye of this stormer
around one hundred and thirty kilometers proud, So they're destructive wind.
(00:54):
So when it impacts and hits the coast, there will
be damage from wind. But I think that probably the
the biggest thing that you know, people will get complacent about.
It's the amount of rainfall. The last time a cyclone
hit southeast Queensland was nineteen fifty four. That was cool
and gatta. They called it the Great Gold Coast cyclone.
And it will be the amount of rainfall anything on
(01:15):
the southern side. So if it crosses north of Brisbane,
Brisbane through to the Gold Coast, we'll see, you know,
two hundred and four hundred and five hundred millimeters of
rain whereas anything on the northern side because the winds
pro take clockwise around the low precious system in the
southern hemisphere, so on the northern side they are more
offshore so that they're drier. And when you know, you're
(01:35):
probably only looking at sort of fifty and fifty milimeters
on the northern side.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Wow, that's dramatic. Is different?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And what are you doing at home, Gary, Like, is
there anything that you know? Are you putting your outdoor
furniture inside? Like, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, I am on the Gold Coast. I am sort
of on the twenty seventh floor. So everything on the
green that is definitely coming in, guys, there is no doubt. Look,
I've been in cyclones in Townsville where the Cever cyclones
have smashed the glass of balustrades and the doors I've
been laying in there. But that's a severe tropical cyclone
get up around four or five, but that's not likely
(02:11):
to occur. But look, most of this damage, there will
be damage on the coast and the wind, but it
will come from the flooding. Read the amount of rain.
I don't think you know Brisbane or Southeast Queen's Land,
and you can't pitchure the amount of rain. It's about
the fall fullness.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Guy, do you think events on this weekend and even
flights even like, do you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Think some of these stuff are going to be canceled?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, look, you know airports are definitely going to come
Thursday will come closed, there's no doubt. If it crosses
it sort of around Brisbane area or the Gold Coast
of there, the airport's affected. But events wise as across
the coast, sometimes they slow down, sometimes they speed up.
I think you can pretty much ride off Friday. It
looks at this point Saturday at the wind in wet.
(02:54):
It'll just be depend on the amount of flooding and
where that occurs or what events. But I mean, if
you're looking at events that are on grass, you could
pretty much say the gramity too, where that's sure right.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So we've got the Dolphins playing at Suncorp on Thursday
and the Lines are playing at the Gabber on Thursday.
They're both Thursday games.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So both Thursday. Now, the only way that that's possible
than likely to go ahead, as I said, is that
Alpha takes a bit of a turn and heads further
north or south. Once again, if it goes down southbound
towards the border the tweed, which is a possibility, and
it slows down coming in, there's a chance for that
to happen. But later in the day less that's likely
(03:35):
to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, so this is real. I was a little concerned
because the Queensland Premier, David Cresofuley had said residents should
do everything they can, including having tin food, making an
emergency kit, gathering up passports and clearing debris from properties.
And I'm thinking, is it going over the top, But
you're sort of saying maybe not.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, that's right. If you're right in that eye of
the storm, there'll be a lot of people that go
this was a visa because they've been on the northern
side and it hasn't hit but look what I can
tell you will happen. You know, we'll be anxious, will
be canning down. This will be such a slow way.
But as we get into Thursday and then all of
a sudden when things do get real and if you've
lost power and all of a sudden there's no food
(04:20):
on the grocery shelf and you know, so yeah, it
does occur. So look, I think you've still got time
to get all those plans in place, and I think
later today and Tuesday we can narrow down the actual
path of Alfred as we know they are sort of
you know, they do chop and change at that last
minute as well. But it's getting real and it's getting
close as well.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We'll be watching. Thank you Gary, thanks for your update. Mate.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Anytime, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Someone that we hopefully the lord of there again, because
we've got shrid dog with us now.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Good morning mate, Good morning mate.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So this sounds really serious.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Well, we need to take it seriously. We'd all love
to see this cyclone go in a different direction and
not you know, make landfall, but we need to prepare.
We've got a little bit of notice. Now there's obviously
a few days notice, but we need to make the
best of it. And that comes down to you know,
what you might need in your home, what you might
do in your home, and you're definitely you know, getting
(05:21):
ready for potential power failures is one of those things
you should consider because high winds mean that power lines
are likely to come down. You know, tree fall across
a power line, that's that's that's a thing that will
absolutely happen. And so be prepared for potential power failures
right across the Southeast Queensland and what that means in
(05:44):
terms of you know, having water, having food, and you know,
having torches with batteries and radios with batteries and that
sort of thing. You know, you'll you'll if you don't
have power, how do you charge your phone? These are
the sort of things that we're asking people to be
aware of, wells when it comes to out side the house,
making sure that you don't have vegetation that could cause
(06:06):
damage if at all possible. We've got free green waist
tipping at our full Resource Recovery centers and so that's
available for everyone that's nudgy. Fernie Grove, Willawong and Candler.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Say you're going to cut back a couple of trees, like,
do you need to do it today? What are you thinking?
What are we we've got a timeline.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well, we're told that things will start to get real
around Wednesday evening, so we've got you know, today tomorrow,
Wednesday morning at the latest. But obviously the sooner we
get prepared the better. There's another thing that is a
common feature of backyards in Brisbane. That's things like trampolines.
Those things can go flying in a cyclone and you
(06:51):
end up coming down on someone's roof or someone's car
or causing damage. So it's important that they're secured. So
there's a whole lot of things to think about. And
you know, Brisbane residents, we've experienced flooding in recent times,
but certainly most of us have never been through a
cyclone and so this is a bit different to what
we would normally expect. A Category two cyclone has winds
(07:15):
of up to one hundred and sixty nine kilometers an hour,
so that they're very strong winds.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Queenslanders are wooden houses on still a lot. I'm not
imagining they like cyclones very much. I mean, are there
people that should There's nothing you can actually do to
your house though, is there. You just have to wait
and see.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, look, it's you know, they've got different building standards
in the tropics because you know, they do get regular
cyclones in the tropics. But having said that, the Queenslander
has been designed for you know, all of Queensland effectively,
so I don't think that the Queensland style home is
particularly problematic. It's mainly you know, think about those strong winds.
(08:00):
What's going to go flying? What can we stop?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, it won't bring down houses like, it won't take
out it might take some rooms, but realistically it's more
the other stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, that's right. I mean, look, no one can say
what damage this could do. It's you know, we're only
speculating at this point in time because we don't know
whether the wind will be less or stronger than what's predicted.
The bom you know, as recently as forty eight hours
ago was expecting that it wouldn't make landfall, and now
(08:32):
they've told us it's likely to. So things can change
quite quickly over the next couple of days. And probably
the most important thing of all is for people to
be taking this seriously and listening to the news, listening
to updates that comes through, because if you're thinking that
this is not serious, that's when you know, we get
(08:53):
into trouble. So we've got to treat it as though
it's absolutely serious. We've got to treat it as though
it's coming. We all hope it will go in a
different direction, but we need to be prepared.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Are you prepping for floods?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Well, that's something that you could also happen as part
of the cyclone. The BOM said that there could be
rainfall between three hundred and six hundred millimeters that could
cause major flooding across southeast Queensland, and so that's a
serious consideration as well. So it's not just the wind,
it's also a large amount of rain in a short
(09:27):
period of time that we need to be ready for.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I should say, too, what can we do for you?
We're a radio station. Is there anything that we should
be doing to help our listeners? Help you guys?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think it just comes down to making sure that
everyone's aware that this is something we must take seriously.
So you know, often you think, oh, look it's a
false alarm. You know, the media outlets might be over
dramatizing it. No, no, no, this is something we have
to take seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And there's been a qu just quickly from Carlor of
Russell Island asking where can you get sam bags in
the Bay Islands. That's not your jurisdiction though, is it,
as Brisbane law.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Man, the Bayo Islands are in Redland City Council, but
I understand the Redland City Council website has a list
available of where you can get them from. But certainly
there's a lot of information available online through councils and
for residents in Brisbane if you're head to the Brisbane
City Council website, it's all there for same for Redlands
(10:30):
as well. Well.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thank you so much for joining us, mate. I know
you're very busy at the moment, and we may speak
to you again over the next couple of days if
things really ramp up.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Absolutely we'll keep in touch.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We've never heard him so serious. I'm going to take
it seriously, just based.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
On his voice.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I wanted to ask him about the passports, but it
was too serious.
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