Watch: Currumbin Alley car park inundated by huge tidal surge

Dramatic video footage of a massive tidal surge on the Gold Coast has emerged as Tropical Cyclone Alfred slowly marches menacingly closer. WATCH THE VIDEO

Dramatic video footage has emerged of a massive tidal surge on the Gold Coast as Cyclone Alfred marches menacingly closer.

A video posted to TikTok on Wednesday shows a wave of water surging up a beach path at Currumbin Alley and into the car park.

“What the? Holy s..t,” someone yells in the clip as spectators look on.

The post has attracted thousands of views and hundreds of comments.

“Why are people going to the beach during a cyclone warning?” one person commented.

Another wrote: “You do realise it isn’t like a river that will take you downstream and you are good, this is the ocean … if it takes you, you will be gone.”

Cyclone Alfred at North Kirra. Picture: Nigel Hallett

Yet another commenter said: “Kids/teens are going to lose their lives, they don’t comprehend the danger, they see it as exciting, fun, adventure.”

Currumbin Alley has been the scene of daredevil surfing by big-wave riders over the past two days, with jet skis towing them into monster cyclone swells.

Waves have also been surging through the nearby Currumbin Vikings Surf Club car park.

Meanwhile, an elderly woman has been rushed to hospital after being smashed into rocks at Currumbin by a tidal surge.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said police called paramedics to an incident involving a large group of people who were watching the surf when a wave washed through a rock wall about 5pm on Wednesday.

A woman, 78, was taken by ambulance to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition with a head laceration.

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