Almost 100,000 homes in Queensland and NSW were without power on Friday evening as Tropical Cyclone Alfred crawled towards the coast

Gold Coast residents have been urged to stay home and “take shelter”, potentially for days, in a string of alerts from Broadbeach to Jacob Well and South Stradbroke Island.

As a search continued for a man washed into flood waters in northern New South Wales, more than 97,000 homes in Queensland and NSW were without power on Friday evening as Tropical Cyclone Alfred crawled towards the coast. Telecommunications were also knocked out for many.

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