Officials warn the residents to stay awake because the former Alfred cyclone leaves more than 330,000 homes and electricity -free homes.
The Alfred tropical cyclone weakened in a tropical low time system, but officials warned that the storm could still bring strong winds and floods to the eastern coast of Australia.
AND cyclonewhich weakened early on Saturday, crossed the islands along the Queensland coast overnight and now heads to the mainland, Biro told meteorology.
“Severe to locally intense rain leading to the flood of Flash and Rijeka are now becoming the main concern, while the former tropical cyclone Alfred is moving inland,” said Meteorology Manager Matt Collopy.
Alfred darkened more than a quarter of a million homes and businesses, while encouraging the evacuation orders for thousands of people. Deaths have not been recorded so far, but the authorities have called on residents to stay indoors.
“The influences are already feeling, and it is even worse to come in the hours ahead,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at a press conference from the national situational room in Canberri.
It was expected to become the first cyclone cross the eastern Australian coast Near the capital of Queensland in Brisbane since 1974.
The cyclones are common in the tropical north of Queensland, but rare in a moderate and densely populated southeastern corner of the state bordering with the state a new southern Wales.
Thousands without electricity
Brisbane Airport remains closed and the city has suspended public transportation. More than 1,000 schools in southeast Queensland and 280 in the northern new southern Wales (NSW) have been closed.
More than 330,000 homes and companies have lost power on both sides of the NSW Queensland border, which is a large part of them in Gold Coast, which recorded the strongest 107 km/h (66mph).
Of these, 291,000 premises were in Queensland, including 131,000 on Gold Coast, the officials said. Another 45,000 was without electricity in the new southern Wales.
The auxiliary lines, houses and cars were damaged by falling trees throughout the region during Friday night.
One man was still disappeared after his all -wheel -drive vehicle was transferred from a bridge to the Rijeka bridge, which pierced the rain the previous day in the northern new southern Wales.
“Although it reduced it, they remain very serious risks, so it is important that people do not take it as a reason for a sauce,” Prime Minister Albanese said.
