Gold Coast-based AFL WAG Jesinta Franklin has provided a heartbreaking update as she and her footy star husband prepare for Tropical Cyclone Alfred’s arrival on Saturday.
The glamorous model, 33, shared a gallery of clips to social media on Friday night in which she revealed several of her family members were staying at their $8.75million mansion ahead of the cyclone striking.
The Gold Coast-born model shared a clip of the food on the dining table in their living room, which was now without electricity, and captioned it with some alarming words.
‘We have eight extra family and friends who have been evacuated to our home to bunker down,’ Jesinta began.
She added they were having to improvise during meal times due to being without electricity.
‘No power, TV being run off a generator (priorities ha) and pea and ham soup and homemade bread baked on the barbecue,’ she wrote.
Gold Coast-based AFL WAG Jesinta Franklin has provided a heartbreaking update as she and her husband prepare for Tropical Cyclone Alfred’s arrival on Saturday. (Pictured with her husband Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin)
‘The wind is absolutely howling outside and the heavy rain has set in. Stay safe.’
She said the wind gusts outside the home were causing significant distress.
‘The thing hasn’t even hit yet and the sound is deafening already. We’re being told to brace for impact in the early hours of tomorrow morning.’
Earlier this week, Jesinta’s husband Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin climbed onto the roof of his lavish mansion to prepare for Tropical Cyclone Alfred’s arrival.
The former AFL star, 38, was seen clearing out his gutters in video footage shared to Instagram by his model wife Jesinta.
With the ominous cloudy skies as his backdrop, Buddy wasted no time making sure his luxury home was well prepped to stand against the coming storm.
Jesinta captioned the video with ‘gutters done’ before sharing several more posts detailing how the couple and their family are preparing for the category two cyclone.
The former Miss Universe Australia posted clips of the huge waves battering Burleigh Heads as she picked up children Tullulah, five, and Rocky, four, from school.
The glamorous model shared a gallery of clips to social media on Friday night in which she revealed several of her family members were staying at their $8.75million mansion ahead of the cyclone striking
The worst of the weather is expected to hit the South East Coast of Queensland, which takes in the Gold Coast and is home to some of Australia’s most sought after beach-side real estate
She then showed herself sitting in a car as rain began to pour, writing: ‘It’s starting to get heavy now. Praying this isn’t as bad as what they think it will be.’
Jesinta ended her commentary with a black and white picture of Buddy walking into Toymate as the family ‘stocked up on some new board and card games’.
As Cyclone Alfred tracks toward Australia’s east coast, some of the country’s biggest celebrities are bracing themselves for the worst.
Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth and Channel Nine’s Karl Stefanovic both have multimillion-dollar properties at risk.
The worst of the weather is expected to hit the South East Coast of Queensland, which takes in the Gold Coast and is home to some of Australia’s most sought after beach-side real estate.
Cyclone Alfred has slowed over warm water off Australia’s east coast, increasing the chance of it strengthening to a category three system.
The tropical cyclone will be the first to hit south-east Queensland and north-east NSW in over 50 years.
A warning zone stretching 650km remains in place from Double Island Point in Queensland to Grafton in northern NSW.
The zone includes Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay and Ballina, but doesn’t include Grafton.
The Bureau of Meteorology said there was a chance it could make landfall directly over Brisbane, but the most likely crossing ‘still remains between Maroochydore and Coolangatta’.
Follow Daily Mail Australia’s live coverage of the cyclone’s movements.
