NSW and Queensland floods update: BoM defends forecasts after claim coastal community not properly warned | Tropical Cyclone Alfred

The Meteorological Bureau has defended its prediction against criticism that failed to give the coastal community of Queensland in the Bay of Harvey a sufficient notice of a significant decrease in this A tropical hurricane Alfred.

George Simore, mayor of the Fraser Coast, said that the office should review its systems, claiming that the area was not warned sufficiently before it was offered by more than 260 mm of rain within a few hours on Sunday, which sparked a state of emergency and about dozens of rescue.

But the major predictors Christie Johnson on Monday argued, “The office works well.”

She said: “We had large areas under warning, and we tried to reduce these areas under a warning because we received greater directives and the threat areas that appeared.”

the Queensland Prime Minister David Cricolesli said that there is a very tense period 24 hours a day for many in southeastern Queensland during Sunday and Monday, with hundreds of millimeters of water in tables and tables.

“To give you a reference to the response and size of the operation in the past 24 hours, there have been 3676 calls to help SES; this is the largest 24 -hour period in the history of emergency service in Queensland.”

Kevin Walsh, Deputy Commissioner at Queensland, said that one of the fast water team has rescued in the Woods, on the Sunshine Coast coast, at an altitude of 300 meters.

He said: “There were two people at the top of the vehicles and used a drone to check the stability of water, water flow, and obstacles in the water, to exceed safely that 300 meters and brought these people to safety.”

Walsh said that the fast water rescue teams saved 35 flood water.

More than 200,000 people are still without authority from Monday noon across the southeast of Queensland and North New South WalesAbout 48 hours after Alfred Coast crossed.

The beauty of rain exceeded 400 mm in some areas in the aftermath of Alfred, the first hurricane in more than 50 years to strike southeast of Queensland.

There are warnings to BrisbaneLogan, Gold Coast and Opswich while threatening the swollen rivers and tables by breaking their banks.

The Epsouc City Council issued an emergency alert on Monday, as heavy rains brought dangerous floods.

The threat spread West Brisbane, where Locker Valley asked “to take a safe shelter” due to the flood of Lidley Crick.

It was not clear that the number of homes and companies that were immersed, but no life was lost in Queensland yet, according to the Acting Police Commissioner, Shin Chabby.

There is still a warning of harsh weather in the entire region from Gympie to the New South Wales borders.

BOM expects continuous floods, translated, with the aesthetics of rain for six hours of up to 150 mm “not the illusion of the question.”

Johnson said: “We are still expecting to reduce the weather later on Monday afternoon, but the floods will continue, so I ask the residents of southeastern Queensland to remain vigilant and keep up with the latest warnings,” Johnson said.

Crisafulli said there are still predictions of heavy rains in “some parts of the southeast.”

Commonwealth payments are already available in Logan, Gold Coast and Redlands, where other council regions are expected to follow the progress of local governments. The value of payments is $ 180 per person or $ 900 per family affected.

Hundreds of schools remain closed or on the skeleton staff throughout the region.

NAPLAN is now scheduled to test the country on Wednesday. On Sunday, schools were given the option to delay exams until next week.

Crisafulli said that parents in schools that are closed now should assume that the Naplan test for their children will be late until then.

Meanwhile, Seqwateer has warned that wastewater is expected to flow into some flood water.

A power spokesman said: “We are witnessing wastewater flows and versions of some of our wastewater infrastructure due to a set of reasons, including increasing flows from wet weather, power outages or critical ingredients for pump stations that were removed as part of the preparation work,” said a authority spokesman.

“We remember people to avoid contact with flood water and local waterways after wet weather. During the humid weather events, waterways can be affected by a group of sources, including diluted wastewater, debris, animal waste and storm water.”

The authority stressed the safe drinking water.

In Brisbane, which has now been overwhelmed four times 15 years ago, the effects of floods were mostly concentrated on suburban tanks, instead of the Brisbane River.

The village of Rosali, which was subjected to frequent main floods, remained largely affected by Monday morning. But other parts of the city have been exposed, similar to the year 2022, when the city rocks overflow.

The Enogerra Dam, which nourishes the Enogeerra/Breakfast Creek gatherings that extend over the northern suburbs of Brisbane, with a capacity of 240 % on Monday and the water flow over the corridor. The levels of water in the direction of the river stream reached its peak in the middle of the night, but the authorities are closely watching to see if the tide is rising again.

Government emergency service rescue teams most of Monday morning search through dozens of cars, and many of them fell with their climax at overnight, and verifying that no one is inside.

“If you are near the flood water, move to the highest possible level,” Queensland police said on Monday morning.

In northern New South Wales, where One person diedRain, roads are still closed and people are warned of driving through high water.

About 1,800 people were isolated by the flood and another 18,500 people were told that they could be isolated.

Through the northeast of the state, 20,300 people were informed of the evacuation.

On the weekend, some residents were allowed to return to their homes in places like Lessmore while reducing conditions.

“We are not out of the forest,” said Sean Kirins, an assistant commissioner for emergency service in New South Wales.

“The risk of heavy rains is expected to continue throughout Monday and perhaps until Tuesday will only exacerbate this danger.”

Anthony Albaniz was in Lesmmore on Monday. Prime Minister flew to Brisbane on Sunday, while floods closed a community in Queensland and destroyed homes and cars.

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