Evacuees from flood-ravaged towns in north-west Queensland feel like they are living limbo as they wait to return home, with some getting by with just the clothes on their back.
Ms Thompson helps run the Urandangi pub with her father, who chose to stay behind and face the floodwaters.
"We try not to show them [photos of the flooding] because it's too emotional for them to handle losing and worrying about animals and stuff like that," Ms Thompson said.Zachariah and Maxine Sowden were in a similar boat.They were helicoptered out of the Gulf of Carpentaria community of Burketown on Saturday as floodwaters swamped their house."I didn't even have shoes. My thongs went floating down the river.
Floodwaters were receding in Burketown but the airstrip remained unusable and the community was expected to remain cut off by road for several weeks, with helicopters offering the only way in and out. Mr McKinlay said staff from the Queensland Reconstruction Authority would travel to the town this week to begin damage assessments.
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