00:02Kate Fraser is relieved this is the extent of her clean-up after ex-tropical cyclone Norelle.
00:09We've had three or four dress rehearsals this year and I don't regret any one of them.
00:13She is worried though that a recent run of severe weather will dampen the drive market that her cooktown business
00:19relies on.
00:20What I think small businesses are going to have to do is pivot and maybe start targeting people in our
00:24backyard for go that trip to Bali.
00:26If the weather doesn't deter tourists, a global surge in fuel prices might.
00:31I didn't have it on my bingo card that there was going to be an escalation in the Middle East
00:34that was going to affect my little business in Cooktown.
00:36South of Cooktown, the local publican in Rossville is less worried.
00:40People want to go somewhere, they'll go.
00:42The pub was spared this time round. It's a sharp contrast to 2023 when it was flooded after Cyclone Jasper.
00:50We're back on track now and hopefully that's the last of the drama.
00:54The main issue is that the two or three weeks after those big storm events, we do have some problems
00:59with perceptions that the area has been damaged and it's not a great time to come.
01:03Rain has continued to fall in Weepa on the Western Cape.
01:06Schools are preparing to reopen for kids keen to swap stories of their first cyclone experience.
01:13It felt like someone was trying to whistle at me and it sort of got scary after one bit when
01:18it got really loud.
01:19And it didn't sound like the wind could do that.
01:21Winds bowled down fences and toppled trees that are now being made into mulch as the clean up continued.
01:29Showers and storms are easing on Cape York Peninsula, but daily rainfall totals between 20 and 60 millimetres in isolated
01:36pockets are likely.
01:38The hope now is that that doesn't hamper efforts to restore power and communications to isolated communities.
01:45It's about 95% humidity and 33 degrees at the moment. So you can imagine how unpleasant it is in
01:52some of the houses with no fans or air conditioning circulating.
01:56A sweltering wait for waters to recede.
01:59A sweltering wait for waters to recede.
02:01Imposedly Nikappa
02:01A sweltering wait for waters
02:02A sweltering here
02:03A sweltering wait for省
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