Tropical Cyclone Alfred SE Queensland

morse on 03/03/2025 - 12:28
Last edited 03/03/2025 - 17:40

SE Queensland is expecting a cyclone to possibly make landfall on Wed-Thurs. At the moment it’s predicted to hit as a cat 1 or cat 2 but maybe end up as just a tropical low. Anyway for anyone who lives here or visiting:

sandbagging
Gold Coast
Gold Coast has three sandbag stations will be open from 8am to 5pm Monday at the following locations:
196 Old Pacific Highway, Pimpama (next to the City of Gold Coast Coomera Depot)
42-44 Boyd Street, Bilinga (next to the City of Gold Coast Tugun Depot)
61 Hutchinson Street, Burleigh Heads (at the Reedy Creek Waste and Recycling Centre)

Moreton bay (thanks @sam-1966)
https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Services/Disaster-Manageme…

The trams are also down the morning on GC with buses apparently on the way.
Keep up to date via ABC Radio and local SES pages. If anyone has any useful info or pictures please post in the comments.

General Discussion

Comments

  • MS Paint on 03/03/2025 - 12:32
    +11

    Stay safe everyone in SEQ. Remember to never drive through flooded roads. NEVER.

  • ForkSnorter on 03/03/2025 - 13:59

    Interesting that they know the route of the cyclone will almost completely reverse direction on Tuesday. I wonder how confident that prediction is.

    • MrThing on 03/03/2025 - 14:19
      +1

      The boss must have drawn the edit in with a sharpie

      • try2bhelpful on 03/03/2025 - 14:20
        -1

        Just how stupid are Americans?

        • MrThing on 03/03/2025 - 14:34
          +1

          I've run out of words to describe the stupidity of them…..

  • try2bhelpful on 03/03/2025 - 14:09
    +1

    Everyone stay safe and please don't do anything stupid. Just hunker down somewhere safe until is passes. Best of luck people.

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 03/03/2025 - 15:07
    +5

    apparently a bit of a frenzy going on with people loading up on bottled water / tp / meats / eggs (???) / eskys / torches

    me: drowning in torches from all the ozbargain deals

    • Chandler on 03/03/2025 - 15:21
      +1

      Jimothy (but with torches…)

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 03/03/2025 - 15:23
        +1

        Me: I bet it’s the sausage gif

        Clicks

        Hahahaha so good

    • morse on 03/03/2025 - 18:56

      Which is kinda crazy as if the power goes out, (which is highly likely) it’s all going to go off if it needs to be refrigerated, especially the meat. And realistically how much TP are you going to use in 24hrs.

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 03/03/2025 - 18:58

        I guess tp fair game… not gonna expire

        The rest yeah…

        I regret not doing the weekly shop on Saturday like I normally do - just passed the shops and it’s absolutely chockers - like I only see it that full during the week leading up to Christmas kinda chockers

        • morse on 03/03/2025 - 19:03
          +1

          Shops were quiet on the weekend too, even Sunday, and we’ve know this cyclone is coming for a while now. I guess everyone went to work and got hyped up with fomo panic.

          • Jimothy Wongingtons on 03/03/2025 - 19:05

            @morse: Yeah it’s funny. The more I talked to clients today and the more you talk to people the thought in back of head starts to form like uh oh… it HAS Been some time since I went up on the roof to inspect gutters and downpipes…and we don’t have a 4 month stockpile of meat… hmm

            Some dads in their little group at the school pickup were comparing their water stockpiles, bathtubs of water, buckets, esky’s of water and they were planning to hit Bunnings after to grab some more containers/eskys - I’m just listening like… hang on isn’t this only supposed to last a few days…

      • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 19:49

        Power? On the bright side any coastal nuclear plant would go full blown Fukushima in an event like that. Another reason to count our blessings.

  • eek on 03/03/2025 - 15:16
    +2

    Bottled water is the new TP! Pulled into the carpark to see almost everyone loading water into their cars.
    Some people had entire trolley full of bottled water. NUTS.

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 03/03/2025 - 15:23
      +2

      Hydro homies unite

    • tenpercent on 03/03/2025 - 15:31

      What are you going to drink if the public water system gets shut off or contaminated?

      • BOGOF on 03/03/2025 - 15:35
        +1

        Beer?

        • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 16:08

          Exactly!
          Water?
          That's Un-a-strayan.

      • Poor Ass on 03/03/2025 - 15:59
        +1

        with the amount of deals here probably coconut water

        • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 16:09
          -1

          More like peanut water in QLD

          • Poor Ass on 03/03/2025 - 16:17

            @Protractor: sorry don't get it

            we already have the Brisbane river for that if you are referring to the colour

            • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 16:18

              @Poor Ass: Really?

              • try2bhelpful on 03/03/2025 - 16:46

                @Protractor: I suspect you are making a Joh comment?

                • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 17:49

                  @try2bhelpful: I mean it is the peanut state. Not the coconut state.Kingaroy would be aghast

                  • try2bhelpful on 03/03/2025 - 18:42

                    @Protractor: Between Joh and Russ my god how corrupt was that state? They said Queensland didn’t have daylight saving because the sun shone out of Joh’s arse and he wasn’t getting up an hour earlier for anyone.

                    • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 19:46
                      +1

                      @try2bhelpful: LOL.
                      Russ Hinze. What a flash back.Not in a good way.
                      QLD was effectively a separate political area back then. JBP just ignored the federation and constitution.
                      I think he was a money printing kind of genius.

      • try2bhelpful on 03/03/2025 - 16:05
        +3

        You can fill containers around the house with water from the taps beforehand and fill the bath with water.

      • morse on 03/03/2025 - 17:41
        +1

        Just prefill containers rather than buying.

    • Chandler on 03/03/2025 - 17:06
      +3

      Some people forget they have taps at home that cost them ~$5 per 1000 litres. Much cheaper than the bottled stuff at the shops: ~$700 per 1000 litres!

      • c64 on 03/03/2025 - 18:40
        +2

        why waste money on water bills. i imagine you'll be able to put a 10L bucket outside and it will fill within the hour with the amount of rain forecast

        • try2bhelpful on 03/03/2025 - 18:44
          -1

          Might be a tad contaminated by all the shit blowing around, perhaps including your containers.

        • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 19:49

          Rain'll be going sideways, as will bucket

  • sam-1966 on 03/03/2025 - 17:31
    +2

    Here's a link to locations to get sandbags in the Moreton Bay City Council area:

    https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Services/Disaster-Manageme…

  • c64 on 03/03/2025 - 18:34

    Predicted path http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml

    4pm on 4 march seems to be the moment of truth

  • c64 on 03/03/2025 - 18:44

    i wonder what is going to happen to all the homeless tent cities

    • AdosHouse on 03/03/2025 - 19:18

      Moreton Bay Council dream come true.

      • Protractor on 03/03/2025 - 19:51

        If anything there'll be more homeless afterwards. Hopefully the whole council gets to wear those shoes.

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 03/03/2025 - 19:18

    According to Reddit as of 20 min ago:

    For anyone in the BCC area planning on getting sandbags, Newmarket, Lota and Zillmere have all run out for the time being

  • miwahni on 03/03/2025 - 22:37
    +2

    Tuesday and Wednesday are normally my go-to-the-office days but we've been told we can work from home those days as well this week. Thanks Alfie!

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