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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Syvret, Andrew Stafford, Lucy Clark, Royce Kurmelovs and Andrew Messenger

Limited sleep, damp houses – and waiting for more wild weather: on the ground preparing for Alfred

People look at an uprooted tree lying across the roadside in the aftermath of Cyclone Alfred on the Gold Coast
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred has caused plenty of damage and there could be more to come. Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

‘Sleep was not much of an option’

At 9am it’s still gusting like a bastard in our corner of Surfers Paradise. The street is still OK, but there’s a fair bit of debris, and branches are still coming down during the more violent squalls. Quite deceptive really: one minute you think things have died down, and next minute another mini gale howls through.

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