Impacted areas are dotted along the 735-kilometer stretch of the Queensland coast from Cairns – a gateway to the Great Barrier Reef - to Mackay, with the city of Townsville, Ingham town, and Cardwell among the worst hit by flash floods and overflowing rivers.
One person drowned in the flooding on Sunday and thousands of residents in low-lying coastal suburbs and towns are under immediate evacuation orders after nearly a summer’s worth of rain fell on large parts of North Queensland in just a few days.
Deadly floodwaters triggered by record rainfall in Australia’s northeast rose for a third day Monday as authorities warned flood-stricken communities to brace themselves for further destruction.
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