Been thinking about that too. We had winds here in narrabri a couple of years ago up to 150km/hr for a 5 minute period. Seemed like a lot longer at the time and was pretty scary. I can’t even imagine what 290 km/hr for a few hours would be like. I can’t see many people up there getting any sleep tonight. Hopefully everyone survives okay.
It’s not like a flood where if you stay and things get a bit wayward at least you might be able to get on the roof. Things go wrong in a cyclone and you wouldn’t get that many other chances.
Maybe I’m just worry to much but I would be very nervous if I lived up there.