Cyclone Alfred strikes Queensland’s Cypriot Community building

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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall on Bribie Island around 8pm local time on Saturday, March 8, and moved west onto the mainland by 9pm, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

Over 350,000 properties in Queensland and New South Wales lost power as the storm hit eastern Australia.

Energex reported that power restoration in south-east Queensland, where about 321,600 homes were affected, could take more than a week. Around 31,000 properties in northern NSW were also impacted by outages.

As Cyclone Alfred swept through Queensland, the Cypriot Community Association of Queensland was also impacted by the storm.

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Structured tent collapses outside the Cypriot Community building.

President of the Cypriot Community, Stathis Zampas, confirmed that the Community’s building had been hit. Photos showed the entire structured tent in front of the building had collapsed due to strong winds.

This isn’t the first time the Community building has been hit, with Mr Zampas telling Alpha News the building had also been impacted by the devastating floods of 2011 and 2022.

Today, heavy rainfall continues across south-east Queensland and northern NSW, with both regions on high alert for flooding.

Dozens of emergency warnings are in place in NSW, and thousands of people are under evacuation notices. In Queensland, only one emergency warning remains.

Source: Alpha News

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