SHATTERED Cyclone Yasi victims are battling a second cruel blow as torrential rain floods already-battered towns, leaving residents stranded and sodden.
Cardwell is isolated, with roads cut to the north and the south. Forecasters predict 200mm of rain between Cooktown and Innisfail until tomorrow morning and authorities have set up an evacuation centre.
Residents warn the downpour has set back the already massive recovery effort as they struggle to protect their homes with little more than tarps. Many drains are still clogged with cyclone debris overflow.
Seventeen rescue specialists were deployed to Cairns and Townsville yesterday, while police recovered the body of Kuranda woman Michelle Murray after her car was swept away in raging floodwaters.
Premier Anna Bligh yesterday said her heart went out to north Queenslanders.
"Those people, particularly in Cardwell, still reeling from Cyclone Yasi, must be thinking what on earth is next," she said. ...
Video: Torrential rain menaces cyclone-ravaged north Queensland – Flooding ‘unbelievable, it's from horizon to horizon’
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