Please note, although your property may not have been directly affected by this flood event, the event has been included in your suburb listing because according to the Bureau of Meteorology river gauge data, a catchment near your suburb recorded a high mark. This event may have affected your suburb.

Near record flooding was also reported in the Barron, Johnstone and Tully rivers. The Tinaroo Dam [ Barron ] and Koombooloomba Dam [ Tully ] were both filled to over flowing by the heavy run-off, after being at low levels for the previous twelve months. The damage to sugar mill tramlines and bridges was severe, but a reliable estimate of crop losses is not available. Huge fields of sugar cane were washed out and in some places cane has been covered by 2 metres of silt. Cars were washed into raging flood-waters and costly farm machinery inundated. Thousands of people had the heart-breaking experience of flood damage due to knee deep water in their homes and when this receded , 300mm of mud. Some people were rescued from roof tops and there were many reports of bravery under very difficult conditions. Helicopters were used in some of the rescue work.