Volunteers seek votes in campaign for the future Share
FINANCIAL backing, and votes of approval, are being sought to for a plan to gradually change the community-led guard at Point Nepean and its historic role in the defence of Australia.
Members of the Friends of Point Nepean National Park group are “not getting any younger” and want to make sure their conservation work continues.
The group has asked Parks Victoria for $13,769 for its project to encourage more people to become involved at Point Nepean.
Group member Mechelle Cheers says the national park with its quarantine station, walking tracks, forts and gun emplacements is a “glorious, special place”. Backing by Parks could depend on the number of votes the plan receives from the public.
remain open. the ones on the routes will remain open. i have expanded the suspension of tolls to include roads in and around jacksonville, like the first coast expressway and the i-295 express lane. and we suspended them. the central florida expressway authority has suspended tolls on a number of roads in and around central florida. the following five ports have been closed. miami, every glades, fort pearce, palm beach, port canaveral, jacksonville and fernandina. as the storm moves north, status could change. but as the storm moves north, we anticipate some of the southern ports reopening. we re still monitoring traffic and have not seen anything out of the ordinary in terms of
it makes you worry for neighbor did not evacuate or heating the order of the governor to stay put. do you have concerns of residents there that have no t evacuated and maybe in harm s way still. we have been talking for days and trying to get people to realize that this is serious and get off of our barrier islands along the coast here for the exact reason. once it gets bad out here, we cannot get them to help it out. that was really important. unfortunately, everybody does not. we hope they make it through okay but there is nothing we could do for them. right, so ed, talking about the rain flooding and winds and what s the major concern there in the fort pearce area right now? a combination of both, excuse me. the wind is falling pretty heavily right now. we do have a lot of water front.
there is always a concern and anybody along the area. the waves are coming up over the seawall this evening. that s our big concern there. there will be some flooding issues to deal with this fort pearce if you have seen the waves coming up on the seawalls. what about project tile? are you seeing any damage, ed? everybody is pulled in and it is kind of hard to see right now because we are not out there to see it personally. i am going to ask you to standby there in fort pearce. we got our jay gray, she s in daytona beach. welcome, i understand it is not supposed to be at its peek there for another couple three hours, it looks pretty bad already. alex, it is been intensifying through the early morning. take a look at the realtime
they see the tv cameras and we basically told them don t stay here very much longer. from where the high water mark is where those folks are standing, that s this much water. more than normally is on the beach right here. the higher amount, that 11th foot, that unsurvivable amount of water, we are talking about north of fort pearce. when this storm starts to make its term west ward to make connection of florida as it is forecasted, that s where the eye and the north right quadrant of the storm pivots and pushes the strongest wall of water in. we are most concerned of that kind of water. there are a lot of inlets from there and all the way up to st. johns river in jacksonville. that means this is a strong force full push of big water. this is the kind of thing where we just got to get people out of the way. let me briefly go over the rainfall here. sorry, tom. we got those winds, hurricane forced along the coastline and