00:00Defenses, and hopes they'll hold back some of the rainfall from storm Darragh.
00:06Council crews in Vrndvok and Ontarvo are on high alert, working through the night and
00:10across the weekend.
00:12It's just two weeks after the last flooding.
00:15That was a yellow warning.
00:16This time here, there's an amber alert for rain and wind, and elsewhere, the wind warning
00:21becomes red.
00:22It's a couple of weeks before Christmas, and it's the last thing we need, at any time,
00:27these days of the year, and it's just like, here we go again.
00:32Well, we're just bracing ourselves and hoping for the best, basically, hoping that it's
00:36not as bad as it was a couple of weeks ago.
00:39Yeah, you know, I'm fairly well prepared with my flood barriers here, but a lot of the other
00:45businesses on the streets haven't got these in place.
00:49As well as the red warning for wind, there's amber warnings for wind and rain, too, with
00:5390-mile-an-hour gusts of winds possible on coasts and hills, and in some places, 90 millimeters
00:58of water expected to fall.
01:01Red means there's a potential danger to life, so people need to take this seriously, and
01:06they need not to travel unless it's necessary.
01:09From multiple agencies, warnings of power cuts, falling trees and flying debris, and
01:14the likelihood of flooding and dangerously fast-flowing water, while large waves could
01:18hit seafronts, homes and roads.
01:21The gusts being up to 90-mile-an-hour, actually, they are quite dangerous.
01:25You will struggle to stand up.
01:27If you're at the beach, you will be seeing big crashing waves coming in, high tide especially.
01:33If you're on a clifftop, you need to be really careful because those gusts will knock you
01:38off your feet.
01:39People are being discouraged from traveling due to expected disruption across sea, road
01:43and rail.
01:44Some train services are already being cancelled.
01:47When the red warning passes, which should be at about 11 o'clock, is that instead of
01:51running passenger trains from the word go, we'll run empty trains.
01:56Those trains will have chainsaw gangs on them from Network Rail, and we will check that
01:59the lines are clear before we restore the passenger service.
02:02So my advice to passengers who want to travel tomorrow is to plan your journey from lunchtime
02:06onwards.
02:08Tough decisions for businesses, too.
02:10Cardiff and Swansea's winter wonderlands will come to a standstill tomorrow, and many festive
02:15events across Wales will be closed, cancelled or postponed.
02:19Natural Resources Wales are closing many of their facilities.
02:23Also shut is the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire, who've taken the
02:27unusual decision to protect visitors and staff.
02:30We're on a historic landscape, so we have seven listed buildings, all of which are potentially
02:38going to have damage to them, as well as propagation glasshouses and a whole host of other facilities
02:44across the site that we just have to be cautious of.
02:47On the Aberystwyth seafront, restaurants and hotels have had cancellations.
02:50They're focused now on battening down the hatches.
02:54We had some pretty substantial furniture bolted in on the grounds, just outside, directly
02:58outside the restaurants.
03:00But we did have one come away from the ground and actually pull up some concrete slabs with
03:05it last night with the winds, so we've decided to move all of these into a safer position
03:10away from any exposure for the evening to make sure that there's no harm done.
03:16As Darra approaches, many in Wales are now bracing themselves for what's about to come.
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