Communities are isolated after days of heavy rain with an outback mayor reporting major damage to his region's road network.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleThe wet season has well and truly arrived in North Queensland with a deluge blocking roads and stranding travellers.The severe weather isn't expected to ease in northern Queensland until mid weekParts of the Whitsundays have received the heaviest falls, with Proserpine recording more than 590 millimetres since Saturday morning.
"I was sitting on the lounge with my gorgeous 17-year-old cat and we heard this enormous crash," she said. Warren Swadling, who runs the Platypus Bushcamp at Finch Hatton, said he asked campers to leave the area on Thursday but was continuing to receive inquiries. There has also been widespread flooding in the north, with the Don River at Bowen now a large body of water.Grazier Ralph Cox, who runs Goorganga Homestead near Proserpine, said he was prepared for the rain.
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