‘Scary’ tropical storm nears Queensland happymamay

The wind was retreating along the Gold Coast in Australia as well as inflation. But while the authorities were warning the residents not to stay in their homes as Hurricane Alfred approached, the browsers of Al -Saddin who were cautious about the growing winds.

“This is what we are looking for,” said Server Jeff Wittal, waiting for a plane skiing to pick it up from Kirra Beach and carrying it in the big waves. “This is the fifth consecutive day – I did nothing but eat, sleep, browse and do it again.”

The hurricane is expected to make a system as a second -class system on Saturday.

Kirra Beach is fractured, and its surfers were busy this week with strong winds.

“There are people who will lose their homes, but for the time being, you take the best of everything. This is just a crazy surfing,” said Server Donny Neil.

The Cyclone Alfred path slowed in recent days and was “wrongly”, according to weather experts, and for this reason the land was delayed from previous predictions.

“The second category system means winds near the center up to 95 km/h (59 miles per hour), with storms of up to 130 km/h,” says Matthew Colop at the Meteorological Office.

The other meteorological specialist described his progress as “the pace of walking”, which raised fears that it may bring a long period of heavy rains and floods.

Four million people in the Alfred Hurricane launch line. It is expected that it will strike between the Sun Shine Coast – Gold Coast – an extension of Australia known for its beautiful beaches and the upper waves riding – as well as Brisbane, the third largest city in Australia and has a population of about 3 million.

While their enthusiastic surfers benefit from winds and waves, most of the population wanders inside.

Stephen Valentin and his wife, who live in the city of Logan, south of Brisbane, prepared about 30 liters of water, food for themselves and their pets, and created “protected rooms” in their home located away from the windows.

“At the present time, we are ready as much as we can for something that none of us has passed … nothing has ever before south across the south,” said Mr. Valentine, who grew up in the city.

“We will get the edge of the hurricane often, but not to this level,” he added.

While Queensland is not alien to hurricanes-the country most vulnerable to disaster in Australia-it is rare to come to the south.

In addition to the strong winds, it is expected to get rid of rain that reaches 800 mm of rain in the coming days, affecting a large area of ​​southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Flash and viruses are the largest in low areas.

“These are difficult times, but the Australians are difficult people, and we are flexible people,” said Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz on Thursday.

The New South Wales police said on Friday that a man was missing after his four -wheel driving was washed out in a rapid flow.

As of Friday, more than 84,000 homes in the two countries were without authority, and tens of thousands of others were under eviction orders.

Nearly 1,000 schools were closed, and public transport and airport closed were suspended. Flights are not expected to resume until Sunday as soon as possible. Optional surgeries have also been canceled.

last time Hurricane was from where he achieved the size of Alfred in 1974, when Wanda hit January and after two months, through Zoe Al -Sahel.

The flood though is more common. In February 2022, thousands of houses were damaged along a large part of East Australia after heavy rains.

The authorities were keen to prepare societies before the Alfred Hurricane. The Council opened sand warehouses throughout the region to help the residents protect their homes.

“It is a surrealist. We know it is coming, but it is very calm,” said Anthony Singh, a resident of a suburb of Brisbane in West End. Wait for four hours on Wednesday to pick up sand bags to protect his home.

His resident colleague, Mark Clayton, helped coordinate the sand bags group, scraping more than 140 tons of sand.

He says, “I think people are somewhat guessing,” he says. “Will the buildings remain awake, will the roofs remain?

With supermarkets closing now and most of them get home, there is a lot of uncertainty as Australians are waiting for the storm to reach.