A tropical cyclone lingered off Australia's eastern coast, bringing drenching rains and record-breaking waves to a heavily populated region rarely hit by typhoons. ++ COMPLETES WITH VIDI_36ZF4ZW ++
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00:00We're pretty lackadaisical up here on the Goldie. I bought a couple of peaches last
00:25night and a couple of cartons of beer, to be quite honest with you, and a bag of grapes.
00:29So I'll be right.
00:30A lot of people are feeling a bit anxious, for sure, because we don't know what's going
00:34to happen. You know, we could all lose our houses, who knows? The pubs might be shut
00:39for a week or two. Who knows? The fruit and veg shelves were bloody empty at Woolies yesterday.
00:45I've got a packet of grapes, I'm good.
00:48Yeah, you're all sorted?
00:49Sorted.
00:51Yeah, I've seen it like this, but not as bad with the wind and that and the whole thing.
00:56But probably the worst one I've been in was probably the 1974 one, when the waves were
01:01breaking over at the Pizza Hut on the road at Kira on the highway.
01:05Yeah.
01:06And that was really bad, that one.