I trust followers of the blog who are located in the path of TC Alfred are safe and sound as we wait out the final 18 hours or so.....hopefully that's all that's left.

I got to the course this morning and I don't really know what word is best to describe what I saw.  Carnage, comes to mind so I think I will stick to that.  I was able to get to almost all the property and it is just unbelievable.  There are 40 trees totally uprooted and none of them are small.  There are probably another 100 that are damaged to the extent that they will need to be removed.  There's a few photos below to show the magnitude of what happened.

On a positive note, all club infrastructure as far as I could see was still there and seemingly undamaged.  All roofs seem in tact and although the clubhouse lost power for a time this morning it was restored quite quickly.  Energex had a crew there clearing branches off power lines on the entry road and Tweed SC were in to fix a ruptured 100mm town water main.  It all happens at once it seems!

There is a lot of water on the courses but the River was about a metre below where it normally first comes over on this mornings ''low tide''.  Unfortunately tonight's forecast rain and wind may present an even worse scenario tomorrow.

RHS 9W not quite down yet.

RHS 2W tee.  There's actually 3 trees here.

Rear 11R tee.

LHS 5W fway.

Same photo as above but with another massive one arrowed behind.

Between 4 and 10W.  3 down here too.

 

RHS 7R tee just missing still functional old irrigation controller.

 

Some of the photos don't really do the size of the trees justice so here's one that's down RHS 4W tee.

 

They're huge!