Residents in Queensland’s capital are preparing for impact – and for some it’s bringing back memories of the 2022 floods

One month ago, when Alice Dent moved into her bottom-floor riverfront unit in the Brisbane suburb of Toowong, she told herself the city couldn’t possibly flood twice in the same decade.

But with category-two Tropical Cyclone Alfred bearing down on the city, the university student is having second thoughts. Like thousands of Brisbane residents, Dent spent Tuesday morning at a sandbag depot getting ready for inundation.

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