Male missing after being filled from tree to flood waters, northern NSW
A search was conducted after washing someone with flood waters in the northern NSW today.
At 2:20 pm, emergency services responded to reports of a 4WD washed from a bridge to fast running water when crossing the wild Cattle Creek Bridge from Old Coramba RD, Megan, according to an NSW media release.
The driver of the vehicle came out and secured himself to a tree branch about 30m from the river, and officers spoke to the man, police said.
Shortly after 3pm the man was swept from the tree and saw it going under the water, police said. He hasn’t seen it since.
Police and SES conducted a preliminary search while waiting for the air.
Basic events
Andrew Messenger
An emergency alert is issued for the coastal coasts of the Gold Coast
Residents from Broadbeach to Jacobs Well and South Stradbroke Island have been ordered to “adopt now”.
Heavy rainfall and flooding will continue after the air is easy.
The alert was issued on behalf of the Gold Coast Council at 3.29pm.
Male missing after being filled from tree to flood waters, northern NSW
A search was conducted after washing someone with flood waters in the northern NSW today.
At 2:20 pm, emergency services responded to reports of a 4WD washed from a bridge to fast running water when crossing the wild Cattle Creek Bridge from Old Coramba RD, Megan, according to an NSW media release.
The driver of the vehicle came out and secured himself to a tree branch about 30m from the river, and officers spoke to the man, police said.
Shortly after 3pm the man was swept from the tree and saw it going under the water, police said. He hasn’t seen it since.
Police and SES conducted a preliminary search while waiting for the air.
Graham readfearn
Alfred is going through ‘structural changes’ as it approaches, says the expert
In recent times, there have been mild changes in the Bureau of Meteorology track maps as the storm Alfred is crawling toward the southeastern coast of Queensland.
The Bureau is releasing the time -now maps and the area of the expected landfall has not changed a great deal, which lined up almost from Noosa to the Sunshine Coast to Beenleigh to Logan, north of the Gold Coast.
But over the last 12 hours or so, the timing of the landfall changes.
The current map expects to take place sometimes around 10:00 pm Saturday morning, Queensland time. When I woke up this morning to Brisbane (yes, I was there!) The expected landfall was about 1am Saturday.
Prof Liz Ritchie-you was a storm expert at Monash University and he said Alfred was conducting some maneuvers, making a loop-de-loop overnight and moving slightly and spreading on its track. He told me by email a few minutes ago:
The storm still covers the same amount of distance, but the distance it needs to cover to get to the ground is higher, and it will reach the land later.
Many of these occur because there are many structural changes that occur in the inner region of Alfred including its eyes.
The Bureau keeps track of the best center – the point at which everyone is accumulating – that it can, but that point goes around the bigger eyes, and Alfred’s eye is quite large.
Picture of a marble under a bowl. Sometimes the marble is sitting at the bottom and moving along the remaining bowl and sometimes it turns out.
Ritchie-Tyo said there are also some “structures that re-adjust” along with the re-development of storms in the north-west part of the eye causing it to move and slow down.
With all that said, the effects were widespread, with flooding in the northern New South Wales with evacuations, and the destructive winds that began to ride in areas with warnings in Moreton Bay and the Gold Coast that people should stay home.
The move from the storm for a moment – the woman attacked by a shark in southern Sydney was hospitalized and in a serious but stable condition.
NSW police said at 1.30pm today, emergency services were called to Gunyah Beach near Bundeena after reports of a shark attack.
A woman, who is believed to be in her 50s, was treated by paramedics at the scene for serious foot injuries.
The NSW Ambulance said he was hospitalized in serious but stable conditions.
Health staff to camp in hospitals during storm
Andrew Messenger
Queensland’s marks or roads -Queensland’s health staff will be on the hospital during the storm to maintain the health operating system.
Not expecting to be safe to drive during the storm itself, so many staff are left in the area. Guardian Australia’s health staff said there were roads -beds consisting of several hospitals.
A speaker for Queensland Health said it was “take important steps to avoid unnecessary travel”.
This includes talking to staff about their transfers and providing on-site habitat to important workers for their safety and to reduce disruption of the patient’s care.
This is not an unusual experience in North Queensland, but tropical cyclone Alfred was the first of 50 years to make a landfall in Brisbane.
People throughout Northern NSW and South-East Qld Brace for Tropical Cyclone Alfred-Video
In the tropical cyclone that Alfred hopes to create a landfall in southeast Queensland on Saturday morning, people throughout the region and northern New South Wales summarize for the impact. Heavy winds and floods have begun in towns such as Lismore, Ballina and Coolya. Nearly 30,000 homes in the NSW were ordered to evacuate, while 20,000 owners in Brisbane were at risk of reducing.
Watch more here:
Supermarkets to start closing from this afternoon: Queensland Deputy Premier
Queensland supermarkets will start to close from this afternoon, Deputy Premier said:
As the Bureau of Meteorology tells us, tropical cyclone Alfred is likely to hit the coast or land of noon tomorrow and then it is important for supermarket workers where they need to be, as safe as possible.
For queenslanders, you will gradually see the closure of supermarkets, including your local groceries and supermarkets. But … shouted at all workers who returned to work to keep supermarkets open as much as possible in preparation for tropical cyclone Alfred who hit the shores.
Telecommunication range is lost for some Gold Coast suburbs
Some Gold Coast suburbs have lost their telecommunication scope after 26 mobile base stations that have lost power and run out of battery, Chelepy Says.
Those locations include Balina, Balina North, Binna Burra, Burleigh Waters, Cooled, O’Reilly’s, Parkwood, Bundles, Reedy Creek, Mudgeeraba, Karumba and Springbrook.
“NBN outages that affect landlines are also taking place and the same places,” Chelepy said.
Once it is safe to do so, our telcos, who have been in contact with us, will enter those mistakes and try to get a generation to those stations.
No missing people or loss of life in the midst of the storm, says the acting police commissioner
The acting commissioner of the police Shane Chelepy It is said that there is no loss of life and that there are no missing people in the middle of the storm event. She gave updating next to Queensland Premier, David Crisahingiand the authorities shortly.
More requests for help are coming, however, as it rains, including reports of large trees that damage cars and other infrastructure.
“We hope it will continue as the storm continues to track down the coast,” Chelepy said.
He also said intense erosion took place on the beaches, especially around the main beaches, and the police were helping the council with road closure and exclusion zones around the affected areas – including looking at boardwalks and lifeguard towers.
ADF personnel supporting SES in northern NSW, McAllister says
Australian Defense Force personnel have been deployed to support SES in the NSW Northern Rivers region, Mcallister Says.
I know that many people, many Queenslanders will think of people in the south of the border, people in the northern river who have evacuated their homes.
We need to identify a difficult 24 hours for many of those communities. I spoke this morning with a number of political leaders I knew in that area. I think they are a sense of pride and confidence in the way the communities are holding on to those issues, but we are still thinking of them.
It is important that the ADF is to be deployed to support SES in that area.
Two helicopters from the National Aerial Fleet are positioned in Coffs Harbor and Bundaberg to provide support to the affected QLD and NSW regions as Alfred’s near -storm, Says Jenny McAllisterFederal emergency management minister.
He issued a storm update next to Queensland Premier, David Crisahingiand the authorities shortly.
The risk of flooding will continue next week, Bom says
Flood watches remain in the area from the Mary River to the Sunshine Coast Creeks and Rivers, the rivers of Pine and Caboolture, Gold Coast Creeks and Rivers, as well as the upper and lower Brisbane and the Condamine, McIntyre and Weir Rivers. A major flood warning is currently for the Logan Rivers.
“We see the river rising to that system where the rain is as pure as I said, over the past 24-36 hours,” Matthew Collopy From the bom says.
