03/03/2025
This is the latest update from Redland City Council. Please read and stay safe.
I will be in contact with my weekly booked in walks for any changes that need to be made. Some of you I have already spoken with.
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**UPDATE** This Watch & Act Alert has been cancelled.
Check disaster.redland.qld.gov.au for latest information.
PREPARE NOW - Redland City Council area - CYCLONE - Issued at 4.00 PM, 3 March 2025
Redland City Council advises people in Redland City to PREPARE NOW for Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which is expected to impact the south-east Queensland coast.
Residents who feel unsafe in their homes are urged to leave now and take shelter with friends or family. This particularly applies to island residents as ferry services will be impacted from tomorrow.
Those who decide to stay should prepare now.
For emergency help in floods and storms, call the QLD SES on 132 500 or download the SES Assistance QLD App. In life threatening situations, call Triple Zero (000) immediately.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Cyclone Watch that includes Redland City. The Bureau advises Tropical Cyclone Alfred will continue moving towards the southeast today, slightly away from the Queensland coast before slowing down and turning westward, towards the Queensland coast on Tuesday. TC Alfred is currently a category 1 cyclone but is expected to intensify to a category 2 cyclone tonight. It is likely to maintain a category 2 intensity as it approaches the south-east Queensland coast late on Thursday.
Conditions will worsen as the weather system approaches the coast.
You could expect:
• Very strong winds that could knock down trees, powerlines, and blow roofs off.
• Power, phone, internet, and water might stop working.
• Heavy rain and storm surge may cause flooding in some places.
Check or make an emergency kit:
• Find out how to get ready for a tropical cyclone and pack an emergency kit at: https://www.getready.qld.gov.au/get-prepared
Prepare your property:
• Fill your car with fuel or charge it. Park it undercover. Do not park under a tree.
• Put away or tie down outside items like furniture, gas bottles, and play equipment.
• If your home is not safe, plan to stay with family or friends.
• If you are near the beach or a coastal waterway, storm surge could cause flooding. This is dangerous. Decide now where you will evacuate to.
• Close cyclone shutters if you have them, or cover windows with plywood, mattress, or heavy blanket.
• Find out how to safely turn off power, solar, water, and gas to your house. Be ready to turn it off if told to.
• Check your family, friends and neighbours know what to do. Help them if you can.
If you find it hard to move quickly or have special or medical needs:
• Use your Person-Centred Emergency Plan (P-CEP) now if you have one.
• Make sure you have enough medicine for at least one week. If anyone in your house uses powered medical equipment, like a dialysis machine or ventilator, decide now where you will go in case you lose power.
• Call your support person or service to organise transport if you need to leave.
• Leaving early is safer than waiting.
Water Transport:
• Council has been advised that all passenger ferries and vehicle ferries to and from North Stradbroke Island, Coochiemudlo Island and the Southern Moreton Bay Islands will be impacted from tomorrow. Residents and visitors should check with their ferry operator for changes. Operators have cyclone plans in place.
o SeaLink North Stradbroke Island: www.sealink.com.au/north-stradbroke-island/
o SeaLink SMBI: www.sealink.com.au/bay-islands/
o Stradbroke Flyer Gold Cats: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083397488253
o Amity Trader: (07) 38206557.
If you are a tourist, visitor, camper or caravanner:
• Campers and caravanners should start packing up now.
• If you do not need to be in the warning area, leave now. Check road conditions and plan your route before you leave.
• If you stay, ask accommodation staff where to shelter if the cyclone comes.
Sandbagging stations:
• Residents who wish to prepare their properties for wet weather are reminded that Council has several sandbag stations available on the mainland and islands. See Council’s disaster dashboard for details https://disaster.redland.qld.gov.au
• Please note, enclosed shoes must be worn at all Council’s sandbag stations. Maximum of 10 bags per vehicle.
• For more information about sandbags, including storage, disposal and how to use, visit the disaster plan website: https://www.redlandsdisasterplan.com.au/before/sandbags-and-sandbagging-stations
Stay informed:
• Follow our local council disaster dashboard here https://disaster.redland.qld.gov.au
• Listen to your local radio 612 ABC AM and Bay FM 100.3.
• For power outage information go to www.energex.com.au
• Check the latest weather, warnings, rainfall, and river heights at the Bureau of Meteorology Queensland website.
• Check road closures at the QLD Traffic website https://qldtraffic.qld.gov.au or for phone service call 13 19 40.
• Check disruptions to public transport at the Translink website https://translink.com.au
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