One month on from the flooding crisis in Townsville and locals are still coming to terms with the natural disaster, but the tragedy has led to some life-long bonds.
If that was not enough to contend with, the couple's home was also at risk of flooding, and shortly after Mr Booij left their suburb it was cut off.
"It was really odd going from packing a hospital bag to suddenly going to packing an emergency bag just in case because we were thinking what are we going to do because our suburb got cut off," Ms Booij said. Once the floodwaters receded, the reprieve for the Booij family was short-lived with baby Harrison born on Valentine's Day."I don't think there is a normal anymore — it's all so new, it's getting back to normal, our new normal I guess," Ms Booij said."We've got a recruitment drive in March so I should get a little SES onesie and sign him up," Mr Booij said.
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