Preparing for Cyclone Alfred

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gaily and Emily Jade for one oh two nine Hot Tomato. Hi,
my name's Annabel and I'm from Benoa and here's my question.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Name the Gold Coast Beach.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
That's good, first question.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
That's still live.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thursday after that seven o'clock at Hot Tomato we are
talking about the cyclone and how we should be getting prepared.
Do things like prepare and emergency kit, so a lot
of batteries, water, non perishable foods, all the supplies that
you need if you've got kids, all of your precious
documents duplicated and put somewhere safe, and then all your

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medications and things like that. And look they're saying around Thursday,
so maybe just go peacefully about getting all of that
over the next three days so we're not all rushing
to the shops on Wednesday going, oh my god, the
toilet babies. You say that now, but you've just given
everyone a shopping lease. No I haven't. But someone who
has lived through a few cyclones on the coast, so
like back in the seventies is John from Ashmore. Tell

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us you've lived through a few.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well the holiday here on the coast. Those that I
come from outside, i'd switch out of Milltown called Rosewood,
and we used to suffer through the cyclones well from
the time I was born through to seventy seven. Seventy
seven was the last major cyclone season we had. And
I've been saying to my kids, you know, get ready
to get ready for the last five years because the

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wet seasons have been getting worse, and it's the cyclones
are coming back. It's a cyclic event. Every sort of
twenty four to forty years we go through a weather
pattern change and we're coming back into what could potentially
be twenty to thirty years of cyclones.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Okay, so what did it look like when you were a.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Kid then, Well, the beaches went further out into the ocean.
That was one thing. Kira Beach where there's now the
car parks and that sort of thing, that used to
be a caravan park and it used to go about
another twenty thirty forty meters onto the beach itself. There
was the lines and lines of caravans there, say, with Kingscliff,
it used to be the beach. The caravan park used

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to go way out into the what is now the ocean.
It's seventy six, seventy five and seventy six they lost
probably three rows each year, four we rows each year
from the caravan park at Kingscliffe.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Wow, so beach Erosian is one thing that we could
really expect.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, look, based on prehistory. Yeah, the history repeats. It's
been proven they drilled down through the barrier. Reef Csiro
did a magazine report back in nineteen seventy three that
I read as a kid because I come from the farms,
and yeah, that's it's going to keep going. Mother Nature

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doesn't give a damn about us. She's just going to
keep repeating. So we're just the thorn in her side
when she gets thick of us. When she gets sick
of us, she'll just kick us out the door and
create the next line of life. But beach erosen is
a huge possibility, especially if this comes into the coast here.

(02:58):
What you're talking about twenty nine teen is a baby
compared to what we live through through the sixties and seventies.
To anybody who's my age ancient, Yes, you talk about
spinning the dial when you when you go for your age, Yeah,
if you're over sixty, you would have lived through the
cyclones on the coast here in the sixties and seventies.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
John, thank you so much. It was good for that insight.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, thanks mate. They're fun, they're fun, they're adventure.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Wait till Thursdays hang on to your hat. I thank you, John,