It's been three months since Cyclone Alfred battered the Queensland coast. The clean-up still has a long way to go on the gold coast which suffered the storm's most destructive southern edge.
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00:00The scars from cyclone Alfred run deep on the Gold Coast.
00:07Three months on, the city's famous beaches are still depleted.
00:12I'd be scared if I lived along here with the amount of erosion.
00:15Rock walls remain exposed despite $30 million spent on sand pumping.
00:22Beaches are expected to take three years to fully recover.
00:26If we were ready to buy right now, we wouldn't buy right on the water's edge or that bank.
00:33Because you just don't know if another one's going to come through.
00:36Because it's still corroding.
00:39It's a big job, but it's been done before.
00:42That's the first time we've seen that boulder wall for 26 years.
00:46And it'll recover again. The sand back passing will bring sand back.
00:51This tree was one of thousands ripped up by the storm.
00:55Gold Coast Council says 2,500 fell across the city.
00:59500 of which still need to be cleared.
01:02The emotional damage from Alfred is also taking its toll.
01:07The Spindler family home was crushed in an instant when a gum tree toppled.
01:12It could take years to repair.
01:14We just don't know where we're going to be in six months, a year, 18 months.
01:18That's, I guess, the toughest part to deal with.
01:21Successive disasters and a housing and skills shortage haven't helped the clean up.
01:26You think to Townsville and you look further south with the floods and what's just happened.
01:30I mean, it's crazy the amount of natural disasters that's happened.
01:34With so much work still to do, he says there's no time to dwell on misfortune.
01:40There's things you can control, there's things you can't.
01:42You tuck it in, you get on, you know. We've got a job to do.
01:48We've got a job to do.
01:50In fact, you're under Tamsville and you're not here.
01:52But if they're in the değildies, you want to be able to route down the road.
01:54We're not a job to do.
01:56We're not going to have any卡, will be able to do this.
01:58We're not going to have the potential.
02:00We're not going to have a problem.
02:02We have to take it.
02:04We're not going to have a problem with breaking down the road.
02:06When you're in the middle of the road, you're on the road, you're not going to live a lot with肌.
02:11We're not going to have a problem with your left.
02:13You're not going to have some problems.