Word On The Street How did the flooding affect you?

Wendy White
We were very lucky actually. The street that we lived in, we were the only house where the water didn't come inside. We lost power for eight days, but we had no phone because we haven’t got landline out where we are, and like everyone else, we just had to get along the best we could.

Michele Black
I lost everything I was renting, and had to hop into the house next door, which was high set, and I lost everything, the whole kit and caboodle. It was at Dickson street off Davidson Street and I'm in a friend's place now, but I’ve got other places to go.

Greg Provians
We had 70 centimetres underneath the house, but we have a house that's built for flooding, so it was more of an inconvenience than anything else. We didn't have too much damage, but we did have to move everything to high ground beforehand, like everybody in Ingham does.

Zara Cundell
It affected us a lot. We lost everything. The house is completely destroyed. It's located off Davidson Street, behind the tennis courts but we've been really blessed, we have a great support network, all our friends and family banded together, and they've helped us immensely. So we've been very lucky in that sense.

Frank Boom
We were at Taylors Beach. We got cut off, but we never had to worry about anything else. We never got any water through the house. At the beach you don’t get the water, just cut off. Put it this way, if you like to get out amongst the people, it’s good, but the only place you can go is down the beach to have a look around, which you can do every day.

Karen Ross
It terrified us, but we didn't lose anything of value. We came out of it quite well compared to just about everyone else. We are south of Ingham and we were isolated for about three days, couldn't get out. But again, we were lucky, we had neighbours.

Bradley Kondisenko
I was alright. I live down at Lucinda Beach so it was fine. We got cut off for week and a half and had no supplies. But other than that, we got very lucky being that we live down at the beach front. It was just a nice, pretty much week-long holiday without power connection.

Julie McVilly
We were really lucky actually, we had a generator and we were cut off from town at Forrest Beach. It was pretty chaotic but, with bedding, sheets and towels under the back door. But other than that, yeah, really, really lucky. We look around here and go, Wow.