A flood emergency is unfolding across outback Queensland with more communities forced to evacuate. The record breaking flood has inundated homes, and devastated the agriculture industry.
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00:00Heartbreak from the air. Endless floodwaters engulfing outback communities.
00:07I'm not sure there's ever been anything like this before. Not that I know of anyway.
00:11Nobody's seen water this high, this deep, this fast.
00:14Another overnight deluge adding insult to injury.
00:18Dozens of people had to be evacuated from Jundah this afternoon.
00:21The devastation is difficult to comprehend.
00:24Our house is on the highest point in Adavale, but it's already in the house when I left at three o'clock yesterday.
00:32We've now got well over 100 homes that have had water inundated and there's the likelihood of that number rising.
00:37Heidi Cowley feared for her children as a raging current encroached her Adavale home yesterday.
00:43Husbands had to push them up onto our roof and they landed the chopper on the roof and took the kids to higher ground first.
00:52Now safe in Quilby and relying on the generosity of locals.
00:56I had one of the other mums here go, do you need clothes for the kids?
01:00The agricultural sector underpinning this region is in crisis.
01:04We could see stock losses into the hundreds of thousands.
01:07While the rain may be easing, the impacts of this flooding disaster are far from over,
01:12as huge amounts of water continue to move downstream and affect other communities.
01:17The recovery from an event of this scale could take years.
01:21The rain will definitely soften the ground, but it won't soften the people in the west, they are tough.
01:25Authorities warning residents to be alert as the system continues to move towards coastal regions.
01:31Underlying conditions are wet, so even moderate rainfall could create some localised river responses.