Actually you have answered your own question but you lacked...

Actually you have answered your own question but you lacked imagination. in chaos scenarios the elite need to take a seat back from their power construct

WA is not your home is it?

Move your home and you do not need flights that have to be cancelled and as for the February date wait till you get to the bridge before you cross it would be better judgement.

If the bridged has been washed away like in the floods in northern NSW and QLD recently why try and cross a area without a bridge??