Cyclone Alfred

Not all of it.

Queensland Park's live alert feed shows that parts of Lamington National Park and Tambourine National Park remain closed due to damage from tropical cyclone Alfred.

Springbrook is open.

And Natural Bridge? At Natural Bridge, which is highly rated, the rules have changed entirely.

The Hinterland features the highest-rated attractions outside the beaches.

But right now, there are barriers everywhere.

Cyclone Alfred closed parts of major parks, Natural Bridge has new fences and fines prohibiting swimming, and the fire warnings for a dry spring are severe.

It's beautiful, but you must check the alerts the morning you go.

Those fuckers keep on turning up every week without getting sacked.

Isn't it a joke when you see the weather, guys, as in the news cameras when there's a natural disaster about to come and then it fizzled out like Cyclone Alfred back in the day? Thank you for the

fuck off.

Fucking fizzled out and they'd made a big hype out of one branch falling out of a tree.

I'm not sure when...

I think Cyclone Alfred was when Dutton came undone.

But, yeah, I think that might be universally recognised as maybe his

biggest...

Yes.

Well, we were certainly anxious, um, when Cyclone Alfred was approaching.

We were fine, luckily, but I am in a flood area in Brisbane's western suburbs, in a suburb called Jindalee, and we did experience flooding in 2011.

I didn't own this home at the time, but our house is fine, still standing, no damage at all.

And I'm just like, I don't do outdoor events for a reason.

Prime reason, Cyclone Alfred last year threw me off from even flying to

Brisbane,

right? So there's...

Um, I at the same time don't think we need to necessarily discount, um, reactive adaptation 'cause a, a lot of the times, you know, it is the events where we learn, um, [chuckles] sadly, um, you know, what can, can be done better.

And I think like in Australia we had the Cyclone Alfred, so there's been a lot of already conversations and lessons, you know, how can we prepare communities better for these types of events.

In terms of kind of the everyday adaptation, um, I think the probably the best examples we have seen globally as well are, you know, heat waves and heat wave action plans that governments are putting, putting in place and services, you know, increasing the resilience of health services as well.

In terms of individual, for instance, households, so there we are seeing a, a lot more focus, for instance, and availability of green finance.