Flooding twice the size of Victoria in Outback QLD

Overall, more than 200 people converged at Thargomindah airport to spend the night, while flood waters threatened.

The entire population of the Southwest Queensland community fled to the highest ground of the air track after the nearby dikes broke their banks.

“Bank sections have fallen here and there in the last two days – there was a lot of water coming,” said Nancy Sparks local.

Residents went to the airport on Monday night after the waters of the flood exceeded the local record of 6.78m.

On Tuesday, water levels were 7.5 million and rising.

“I think it’s starting to reach the peak, it’s still rising in the city,” Bulloo Shire mayor John Ferguson told AAP.

“But I hope we are almost worse.”

The population of about 220 people had moved to a board deposit on Tuesday, but may spend another night at the airport as it supported the worst floods seen in over 50 years.

“This surpasses the floods of 1974,” said Sparks.

“It’s quite devastating to this small town, but we’re trying to keep it together, as much as we can.”

The waters of the flood twice the size of Victoria impacted the west and south of the interior of Queensland, without any relief in sight.

Local inhabitants were warned that water levels could rise again with the remnants of former Tropical Cyclone Dianne, bringing more rain.

The heaviest falls should reach southern Queensland and northern NSW on Wednesday, with total exceeding 100 mm in some areas.

More rain will ensure more difficulties for pastors, causing fears that some will lose all their stock.

The houses were destroyed, the cut roads and the damaged fences, forcing many evacuations throughout the region.

The army is helping with supplies to keep cattle fed, but it is believed that more than 100,000 sheep and cattle have already been lost.

The extent of the damage will not be known until the flood decreases, which may take weeks.

“The level of devastation is immeasurable,” said David Crisafulli’s first -minister of Queensland.

Local helicopter pilots have gathered to help with the population of Adavale of about 30 people in the southwest rescued in recent days.

They also combined to help suspend food supply and cattle forage, with roads cut or severely damaged by flooding.

“Many of the streams are still awake and which roads are open, they are well torn,” said Anne-Maree Lloyd, who had to evacuate his property of Jedburgh, near the Boat River.

“Semi-trailers with a total hay load would simply do not do well.

“The logistics of putting this supply to where it is needed is a big problem at the moment. There is so much water around.”

The main flood warnings were issued from the northern territory border through the center and southern of the interior of Queensland and even NSW.

Communities are expected to be isolated for more than two months in NSW after more rain hits.

“The significant rains in Queensland are slowly roaming the watershed and moving through the Western NSW,” NSW Ses Mike Wassing commissioner told reporters.

“We are talking about isolation potentially for six to 10 weeks for some of these communities.”

Back in Thargomindah, some local inhabitants worked more than 24 hours in a row to try to save the city, only to flood waters explode in the dike.

But Cr Ferguson said the spirits were still high, despite the threat of imminent flooding.

“I couldn’t praise the community enough. Everyone has come together,” he said.