Rain easing in flood-affected outback Queensland
Showers have eased in outback Queensland but the conditions remain devastating for farmers who have been left frightened after the once-in-a-lifetime weather event.
Rainfall totals have dropped from the triple digits into the double digits in most affected towns but despite the decrease, creeks and rivers are still rising and flowing.
"I've never ever, and no one I don't think, has ever experienced just the intensity and widespread of how much rain," Quilpie Shire Deputy Mayor Roger Volz said.
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Showers have eased in outback Queensland but the conditions remain devastating for farmers who have been left frightened after the once-in-a-lifetime weather event. Nine
The small town of Adavale was swamped suddenly last week and had to evacuate to the nearby town of Quilpie.
They will have to continue to wait to return as authorities work to clear the damage.
"The creeks are still flowing pretty strong and rising a little bit at this moment," Volz said.
"The Queensland Fire Department have had their rapid assessment teams go through ... to pre-plan for the re-entry of those people into their communities."
More than 100,000 animals are now dead or missing as a result of the floods and it's expected that there could be more.
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"It's absolutely devastating... it'll take absolutely years to recover from," Barcoo Shire Mayor Sally O'Neil said.
As northern parts of the state begin to recover, rain is continuing to lash the south with the tiny town of Hungerford next in the flood firing line.
"Still rising, might have 100 (millimetres) to go or something like that it's hard to say," Hungerford Hotel owner Graham Fitch said.
" ... It won't quite get into the pub so we're lucky there.
"If it did come in and gone into the cellar, that'd be the wrong stuff."
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