{"id":253799,"date":"2025-03-07T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/brisbane-and-eastern-australia-brace-for-powerful-cyclone-alfred\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:46:24","slug":"brisbane-and-eastern-australia-brace-for-powerful-cyclone-alfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/brisbane-and-eastern-australia-brace-for-powerful-cyclone-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane and Eastern Australia Brace for Powerful Cyclone Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least 15,000 people were ordered to evacuate, tens of thousands more were without power and flood rescues were already underway in a swath of Australia\u2019s eastern coast in the track of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, projected to be the first to make landfall in the region in decades.<\/p>\n

Alfred was expected to come ashore Saturday morning near Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state and home to about 2.7 million people. As of Friday afternoon, it was hovering about 80 miles off the coast of the city and already causing flooding with abnormally high tides.<\/p>\n

To the south, in the neighboring state of New South Wales, local officials said about 29,000 dwellings were considered at risk of flooding as of Friday afternoon, with about 15,000 people in the state under evacuation orders. The authorities counted about 38,000 in the state without power and 46,000 in Queensland.<\/p>\n

Officials warned that the storm\u2019s slow churn westward, moving about 5 miles per hour on Friday, could amplify its impact on coastal communities by prolonging the rainfall and storm surges. Among the areas threatened by the storm is Lismore, a small city about eight hours north of Sydney which suffered devastating floods<\/a> in 2022 in which 22 people died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n