While the tropical Cyclone Alfred is wearing Southeast Queensland and Noord-NSW, most people on the path will never have experienced anything like that.
The last time a tropical cyclone Brisbane was more than 50 years ago in 1974.
Although the city has seen many wild storms since then, Dr. David Henderson of the Cycloon test unit of James Cook University out why Alfred is so different.
“Many people here would have experienced a number of serious thunderstorms,” ​​said Dr. Henderson on Daily Mail Australia.
'They are intense, they are very short -lived and they only influence part of the community. This is different, it is a few hundred kilometers wide.
“It all influences us in the community, and when it comes here, it goes with many, many hours.”
He said that people in Alfred's impact zone should think differently about this weather pattern than all the others they have encountered.
'You have to prepare yourself more mentally if you are in your house. It's not like a thunderstorm that just shoots over you, “he said.
A woman sees walking along a sandbag house in Currumbin on the Gold Coast
An employee is depicted Repair of high -voltage lines damaged by a fallen tree after heavy rainfall before the landing of Cyclone Alfred, in Chinderah, in Noord -NSW, on Wednesday
A person surfs big swelling to Kirra aan de Gold Coast, Queensland, while Aldred drives up
“This will happen a few hours. So we must be prepared for that in our houses. '
He said that people should not stand next to their windows when the cyclone strikes because they “may be hit by rubble or broken glass.”
Dr. Henderson has also caught the myth that placing tape in an x ​​-shape on windows during a storm or cyclone prevents them from breaking.
'The masking band has nothing to do with strengthening the window of the glass. That doesn't do that at all, “he said.
'So please do not think that the filling tape has made your glass bulletproof somehow. It can help to keep part of the glass pieces together when they break, so it's a bit easier to clean up things.
“But it doesn't stop glasses of shards,” he said.
This is supported by the Cycle -Alfred information page of the Queensland Government, which says that the idea that 'tapping an X on your window will not prevent' is not true.
Instead, residents recommend 'a plastic sheet on the edge of the window frame on the inside to reduce driven rainwater in the house due to the wind.
