After a flash flood days before Christmas, Deborah Jones is slowly picking up the pieces, but her chronically overcrowded home that houses 11 people may never return to normal.
The unrelenting weather and road closures meant no one was getting in or out, leaving a community to fend for itself."It is scary when you have [a] flood in your home."
Only half of her house has electricity, and the water in the community was only recently turned back on. "We have to try replace everything, but we don't have the money to buy the beds and mattresses. Katherine is 285 kilometres [away] to go and cart stuff and once you get items from there you have to put it on the truck and it's very expensive," she said.
"My son has a heart condition … and I have a little grand daughter who was born premature and she's very small and she can easily catch a cold," she said.Next door, Deborah's sister Caroline lost nearly all of her possessions in the flood as well.As the clean up effort gains ground, concerns are now turning to how prepared Timber Creek is for future disasters, with many in the community calling for an evacuation centre.
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