1/80Joe Scriha at the Criterion Hotel Finch Hatton Monday January 16 2022Picture:Michaela Harlow
80+ PHOTOS: Floods smash North Qld
An unrelenting downpour across North and Central Qld created serious flooding, trapped motorists, damaged highways and swallowed bridges. SEE THE PICTURES
2/80Cairns mother of three Tanya Snelling with her daughter Leah, 16 and son Jesse, 11 at Big4 Adventure Whitsunday caravan park during the deluge. Picture: Tanya Snelling
3/80Imagery of landslides at Eungella in the Pioneer Valley as rain continues to lash the region.
4/80Chris Macdivitt at the Finch Hatton ShowgroundsPicture:Michaela Harlow
5/80Flooded roads and cane fields alone Walkerston - Homebush Road in Mackay, Queensland. Photo: Zoe Devenport
6/80SES Mackay volunteers Dave Rover (left) and Brian Kunst by the Pioneer River on January 16, 2023. Picture: Duncan Evans
7/80An SES flood boat crew helps out Anthony Ward on the Pioneer River on January 16, 2023. Picture: Duncan Evans
8/80Bloomsbury resident Robert Hold was cut off from home on Saturday morning driving back from Mackay. Picture: Heidi Petith
9/80Facebook user Josh, via Island FM Whitsundays, shared this photo of a waterspout forming over Hideaway Bay in the Whitsundays, January 13, 2023.
10/80Facebook user Ashleigh Brooke Grendon shared this photo of flooding at the Sarina Showgrounds in the Mackay region, January 12, 2023.
11/80Facebook user James Saw took this photo of Dumbleton Weir inundated by flood rains. Photo: Contributed
12/80Facebook user Sue Notting shared this photo of the Helen Cameron's Pocket bridge overrun with water. Photo: Contributed
13/80Flooding and damage along the Bruce Highway has stopped numerous trucks in Proserpine, as Facebook user Johnny Nasari's photo shows. Photo: Contributed
14/80Pinnacle resident Daniel Manning had gone down to Cattle Creek in Gargett along Mackay-Eungella Rd to see if he could help out in his tinny. January 16, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
15/80Heavy rainfall has flooded the roads at Bells Rd and Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
16/80Floodwaters inundated Stockroute Rd at Abbotts Bridge in Te Kowai, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. The machinery is involved in the construction of the new Walkerston Bypass. Picture: Heidi Petith
17/80The Peak Downs Highway was underwater just shy of Eton as you drive from Mackay out to the Bowen Basin, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
18/80Heavy rains have inundated large sections of Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
19/80Heavy rainfall has flooded the roads at Bells Rd and Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
20/80Heavy rains have inundated large sections of Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
21/80Heavy rains have inundated large sections of Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. Numerous fish were flailing or dying as a result. Picture: Heidi Petith
22/80Heavy rainfall has Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
23/80Heavy rainfall has flooded Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. A bird of prey was taking full advantage as it picked off stranded fish one by one. Picture: Heidi Petith
24/80Yeppoon couple Leanne Sampson and Hugh Lane with Cairns resident Stephen Coates with his Pomeranian companion, Chino, camped out at Lethebrook after the highway was cut because of rain. Picture: Heidi Petith
25/80Proserpine mum Phillipa Leabeater and daughter Dash Turner, 13, are waiting for the floodwaters to subside over the Bruce Highway at Lethebrook, just south of Proserpine. They have been waiting since Sunday, January 15, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
26/80Sidney Cotton Bridge at the O'Connell River on January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
27/80Ooralea resident David Greenhalgh checking out the Pioneer River after all four to five days of rain in Mackay. Picture: Janessa Ekert
28/80Yeppoon water police crew are in Mackay to help out as rain smashes the region. Officers rescue a French national whose boat drifted and sank at the mouth of the Pioneer River on Tuesday, January 13, 2023. Picture: Janessa Ekert
29/80Yeppoon water police crew are in Mackay to help out as rain smashes the region. Officers chat with a man living on a yacht in the swollen Pioneer River on Tuesday morning, January 13, 2023. Picture: Janessa Ekert
30/80Landslides have disrupted the Bruce Highway north of Bloomsbury on January 17, 2023. Traffic control is now in place. Picture: Heidi Petith.
31/80The Pioneer River at Cremorne on January 17, 2023 just before high tide. Picture: Heidi Petith
32/80Cattle Creek at Gargett along Mackay-Eungella Rd west of Mackay was well and truly under water as heavy rain continues to smash much of North and Central Queensland. January 16, 2023. Pictures: Heidi Petith / Janessa Ekert
33/80Cattle Creek at Gargett along Mackay-Eungella Rd in the Pioneer Valley west of Mackay was well and truly under flood-water on Monday, January 16, 2023. Picture: Janessa Ekert / Heidi Petith
34/80Cattle Creek at Gargett along Mackay-Eungella Rd in the Pioneer Valley west of Mackay was well and truly under flood-water on Monday, January 16, 2023. Picture: Janessa Ekert / Heidi Petith
35/80All sorts of creatures and critters were swimming to safety like centipedes, rodents, toads, crickets, spiders and even snakes. Picture: Heidi Petith
36/80New Gargett residents (from left): Sara Mattson, Wade Tucakovic, and Jan Williams, sightseeing the floodwaters over Cattle Creek along Mackay-Eungella Rd, January 16, 2023. Picture: Janessa Ekert
37/80Owens Creek resident Charlee Lennox said she'd never before seen this amount of water over Cattle Creek at Gargett. Picture: Heidi Petith
38/80Water was rushing under the Pioneer River bridge at Mirani, west of Mackay, January 16, 2023. Large debris was in the water including two large agricultural tires. Picture: Janessa Ekert
39/80Old Bowen Rd, at St Helens, is a well-known shortcut used by locals to avoid the Bruce Highway, but even this bypass was blocked because of floodwaters. January 14, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
40/80St Helen's residents Lily, Nigel and Sara Utley at Old Bowen Rd on January 14. Picture: Heidi Petith.
41/80Emergency services have rescued a male driver after he became trapped in rising flood water in Glenella, Mackay. Picture: Zoe Devenport
42/80East Mackay residents Sylvia and Bill Neill are out walking Shady-boy on January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
43/80Floodwaters inundated Stockroute Rd at Abbotts Bridge in Te Kowai, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
44/80Heavy rainfall has flooded the roads at Bells Rd and Walkerston-Homebush Rd in Palmyra, west of Mackay, January 17, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
45/80Cattle have been displaced by rising flood waters, as this photo from Facebook user Tanja Benjamin illustrates beautifully. Photo: Contributed
46/80Facebook user Scott Davidson shared this photo of council workers cleaning up Gargett Bridge after it went underwater. Photo: Contributed
47/80Sharon Price shared this photo of a pothole on the road on the north side of Aspley, January 15, 2023.
48/80Marian Eton Rd at Sandy Creek at 9am, Sunday January 15, 2023. Picture: Emma Hayles
49/80Chris Clarke's wife got a terrifying scare when a tree fell on her car during heavy rain along Dalrymple Rd in Eungella on Saturday night, January 14, 2023. Picture: Facebook
50/80Helicopter pilot James Pleaotz took these shots of transformed cattle country on January 15 while he was checking and moving cattle in flood waters of the Belyando and Sutter Rivers. Picture: Contributed
51/80Floods have closed off the Bruce Highway at Calen. Picture: Heidi Petith
52/80Floods have closed off the Bruce Highway at Calen. Picture: Heidi Petith
53/80Floods have closed off the Bruce Highway at Calen. Picture: Heidi Petith.
54/80Will Graham and his boss came to the rescue of a motorist who became trapped in floodwaters at Eton in the Mackay region on January 12, 2023. The driver was rescued in an excavator bucket. Picture: 7News Mackay.
55/80Will Graham and his boss came to the rescue of a motorist who became trapped in floodwaters at Eton in the Mackay region on January 12, 2023. The driver was rescued in an excavator bucket. Picture: 7News Mackay.
56/80Will Graham and his boss came to the rescue of a motorist who became trapped in floodwaters at Eton in the Mackay region on January 12, 2023. The driver was rescued in an excavator bucket. Picture: 7News Mackay.
57/80Dairy farmer Dale Fortescue walked up the Eungella range by foot to get back to his cows on Monday afternoon. The Mackay-Eungella road is closed to traffic due to rock and mudslides. Picture: Facebook
58/80Bowen PCYC volunteers Robyn Burrell and Chelle Davison with Selectability support staff Fallon Warcon keeping everyone fed with home cooked meals. Photo: Contributed
59/80Gymnastics equipment set up as bedding for flood-stranded travellers at Bowen PCYC, January 2023. Photo: Contributed
60/80QAS captured these dramatic images of the Eungella Range, west of Mackay
61/80QAS captured these dramatic images of the Eungella Range, west of Mackay.
62/80Drone images of flooding at Thompson's Creek on the Bruce Highway looking north. Photos: Robert Murolo
63/80Drone images of flooding at Thompson's Creek on the Bruce Highway looking north. Photos: Robert Murolo
64/80Paul Burckhardt, his husband Aaron and their dog Willow were relocating to Townsville when flooding trapped them in Bowen, but the community was soon ready to help. Photo: contributed
65/80Mackay SES deputy group leader Nicole Pasquale on a roof job in Mackay on January 15, 2023. Picture: Contributed
66/80The SES cut off a tree from a man's car in Jubilee Pocket on January 16, 2023. Picture: Contributed
67/80Theresa Creek along Rubyvale Rd in Clermont, Sunday, January 15, 2023. Picture: Les Flohr
68/80Flooding on Clermont-Rubyvale Road at 8am. Picture: Facebook
69/80Gympie resident Neville Elliott has camped inside his freight truck since becoming stuck in Lethebrook along the Bruce Highway on January 15, 2023. Picture: Heidi Petith
70/80Hakopa Ward and Sam Frost from Mirani at Platypus Beach Mirani Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture: Michaela Harlow
71/80Mackay Eungella Road on the way to Gargett. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture:Michaela Harlow
72/80Mackay Eungella Road on the way to Gargett. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture:Michaela Harlow
73/80Marian Eton Road. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture: Michaela Harlow
74/80Jacksons Road on the Marian Eton Road. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture: Michaela Harlow
75/80North Eton Mt Vince Road on the Marian Eton Road. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture: Michaela Harlow
76/80House on the Marian Eton Road. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture: Michaela Harlow
77/80Mark Mosier from Mirani SES filling sand bags at Mirani. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture: Michaela Harlow
78/80Samuel Hine from Slade Point at Platypus Beach Mirani Pioneer River. Tuesday January 17 2022 Picture: Michaela Harlow
79/80Ian Hardie from Mackay at Fursden Creek. Tuesday January 17 2022. Picture:Michaela Harlow
80/80Mayor Greg Williamson at the Pioneer river Tuesday January 17 2022. Picture:Michaela Harlow
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