Gold Coast weather: Council opens sandbagging stations ahead of wet weather
Gold Coast City Council has opened sandbagging stations as the region prepares to be battered by a system that’s already cut off communities in other parts of Qld.
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Gold Coast City Council has opened sandbagging stations as the region prepares to be battered by a system that’s already cut off communities in inland parts of the state.
The Bureau of Meteorology shared a severe weather warning for the Gold Coast, forecasting a “very high chance of localised heavy rainfalls”.
The warning sparked the city to open sandbagging stations from 12pm on Thursday.
The alert said heavy rainfalls of more than 100mm were expected from late on Friday into Saturday across the Gold Coast.
“With the catchments already wet, residents are encouraged to monitor conditions as they could change quickly,” a GCCC statement said.
Sandbagging stations will be open from 12pm to 5pm on Thursday and from 7am to 12pm on Friday.
The locations include:
– 42-44 Boyd St, Bilinga (next to the City of Gold Coast Tugun Depot)
– 61 Hutchinson St, Burleigh Heads (at the Reedy Creek Waste and Recycling Centre)
– 196 Old Pacific Hwy, Pimpama (next to the City of Gold Coast Coomera Depot)
“Never drive, walk, ride through, play or swim in flood water. If it’s flooded, forget it,” the GCCC statement said.
On Thursday morning, meteorologist Helen Reid said the system, which was inundating inland parts of Queensland, was moving towards the Gold Coast.
“The low-pressure system and the rain that has impacted western and central Queensland this week will slowly move east towards the southeast of Queensland in the coming days, bringing widespread rain to much of Queensland,” she said.
It comes less than three weeks after ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred smashed the Gold Coast leaving beaches ravaged, more than 140,000 homes cut from power and roads flooded for days.
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