It is windy and rainy outside, so now they are expecting to go into the laundry, just like they did for #CycloneAlfred
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We're off again for this year's first #EmergencyCommsExercise. This event is another #HorseEnduranceRide taking place at #KilkivanQld.
First for the year because #CycloneAlfred saw the cancellation of the event at #SouthbrookQld.
I hear we're using 2m FM simplex for this one. Cross-band operation here we come.
During Cyclone Alfred, a local quarry dam in Mount Gravatt burst open, sending debris downstream
https://mountgravattnews.com.au/bmi-group-denies-contamination-claims-after-mt-gravatt-quarry-incident/ 'The company denies any contamination occurred, asserting that all water released from the site met safety standards... Residents in the area have expressed concerns about the long-term environmental impact of the incident, particularly on the local ecosystem. Some have questioned whether BMI Group had sufficient safeguards in place to prevent such an event.'
Four major floods in 50 years is an interesting framing: it was one flood 50 years ago, 35 years passed, and then there's been three just in the last 15 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/15/brisbane-flood-proof-housing-developments
The Guardian · Cyclone Alfred brought Brisbane’s fourth major flood in 50 years – can the city be flood-proofed?
Cyclone Alfred (2025) Erosion
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/drone-maps-reveal-scale-of-sand-swallowed-in-cyclone/105053372
Bribie Island (2025) “new passage”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/call-for-action-on-bribie-island-erosion-after-cyclone-alfred/105045738
ABC News · Drone maps reveal scale of sand swallowed in cyclone
My visualisation of Australian fruit and veg seasonality made the Information is Beautiful awards longlist.
As the food bowl of Australia was flooded thanks to #CycloneAlfred, the information in the guide may be off for a bit until we recover!
WE HAVE POWER!!!
It was due back at 9pm today, but youngest child at home has just messaged to say the power is back on!
ABC News is probably the only news organisation in Australia that can and does dedicate resources to doing this kind of regional reporting (which is why its continued funding is so important), but they really need to cut back on adding strong vignettes to photos in articles about natural disasters to try to make them more “dramatic”. Particularly the photos in the second half of this article are a bit much…
ABC News · People of Australia's food bowl, the Lockyer Valley, are 'sick of floods but used to it'
In the office today, still no power, phone or internet at home.
We had 687mm of rain over the event (mostly in a three day period).
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Milly the baby koala, brought to the Northern Rivers Koala Hospital for care after #CycloneAlfred. Look at that little face.
Fossil fuel pollution is making cyclones like Cyclone Alfred more intense, but everyday people are left paying the price while coal and gas giants rake in profits. It’s time they took responsibility.
Sign the Greenpeace petition to make polluters pay!
https://www.greenpeace.org.au/act/make-polluters-pay
www.greenpeace.org.auIt’s time to make polluters payIf corporations paid fair taxes on their profits and pollution we could support communities impacted by climate change while also transitioning away from fossil fuels. Sign the petition now.
Oh no, Cyclone Alfie hit the Mega Golf Ball at Putt Putt Mermaid Beach for Four! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/tuesday-ex-cyclone-alfred-live-flood-warnings-issued/105034082#live-blog-post-159214 #cyclonealfie #cyclonealfred #mermaidbeach #goldcoast
Blue skies, sunshine and a lot of clear-up from #cyclonealfred in #Brisbane 4065 by the looks of things.
Well, after a lot of swearing… I *think* I have a Raspberry Pi 400 running #AlpineLinux … tethered to my 4G phone hotspot … acting as a crude WiFi router/bridge for my border router running #OpenBSD which is tunnelling to my OpenBSD VPS at Binary Lane.
Over that tunnel, I now have #Postfix on the home mail server, relaying over the VPN to #OpenSMTPD on the VPS.
Should be useful the day I have to leave Internode… but for now, it's bypassing the rather dead NBN service (thank-you #CycloneAlfred).
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arc) @ZeroEcks heyheyhey! Don't u dis real cyclones. This one wimped out at the sight of mighty Brisbane 
On day 5 of unexpected no-school days, I took my “going mad because of the boredom” daughter to The Big Shops today. Seems like everyone else in #Brisbane had gone to the shops as well today. My goodness.
The Starbucks (I know) had told the mobile app that it wasn’t open, because it had limited supplies of stuff and I guess it was too complicated to tell the system what it had and what it didn’t. Nice workaround.
Random store closures in The Big Shops - because of staff shortages, I’m assuming.
Still, it was nice to get out for the first time in a number of days.
I then went for a walk with the (water-loving) dog, armed with the garden brush to get all the leaves off the drains and make sure they were all free-flowing, which was excellently satisfying for everyone except the dog, who would have preferred to have had more walking and less waiting.
Hoping to make it to the regular coffee shop tomorrow, if it hasn’t been flooded out.
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…and this, was Hilliards Creek in Wellington Point this morning… just about to flood the road. #CycloneAlfred
