Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought harmful winds and heavy rain, triggered flood warnings.

About 316,540 people were without power in Queensland’s southeastern, with Gold Coast City being the worst hit area with more than 112,000 without power due to the storm system, energy distributor Energex said in a statement.

The storm reached the Queensland coast on Saturday as a “tropical low” after 16 days as a cyclone, which got preparations from millions of residents. The state’s capital Brisbane was spared the storm, which also felt in the southern neighbor New South Wales.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that “the situation in Queensland and northern New South Wales remains very serious due to flash river and strong winds”.

“Heavy rain, devastating wind throw and coastal surfing influences are expected to continue in the coming days,” SSAID Albanese in Canberra, in comments that are the television of Australian Broadcasting Corp.

The nation’s bureau of meteorology said heavy rain that could trigger flooding of flash, developed on Sunday and could influence Brisbane as well as Queensland’s regional centers for Ipswich, Sunshine Coast and Gympie, says.

Damage to wind with wind throw of about 90 kilometers per hour was also possible in the state, the agency said on its site.

“It is now just a slight low as it continues to move further inland through southeastern Queensland, which brings plenty of rain,” said bureau -meteorologist Dean Narramore.

Brisbane Airport opened on Sunday, but released on X that “continuous weather can affect the schedule”.

Queensland decides on Sunday about whether about 1,000 state schools, closed due to the bad weather, will reopen on Monday, said state premier David Crisafulli.

“Where it is safe to do so, schools will open again with the exception of Gold Coast, where there is still some significant damage. Power loss and transport problems,” Crisafuli said in TV comments from Brisbane.

“One thing remained consistent and it is the spirit of society and the decision,” he said.

On Saturday, a man in flooding water died in northern New South Wales, while two Australian defense force vehicles were on their way to help the residents of the city of Lismore were involved in a road collision that hurt more officers, officials said.