MUNGINDI’S Barwon River peaked on Tuesday with a reading of 7.36 metres.
Jolly Swagman’s bar worker, Barb Woodham reported no damage in the town.
The biggest problem, according to Ms Woodham, was being cut off and isolated.
The SES have been making trips to Mungindi with supplies every day.
There was no damage to houses but properties have a lot of water lying around.
“Nothing in town got destroyed but properties out of town are a bit different,” Ms Woodham said.
Boggabilla was much the same with the only effected areas being the closed roads.
Owner of Boggabilla Motel, Peter Jenyns believed financially the water did damage because of the roads being closed, but that was all.
“Yeah financially it took a toll because no-one could get here,” Mr Jenyns said.
Rowena Public School’s first day was more like a ghost town.
Principal Andrew Rodgers saw one child at school on Monday, which was his own son.
Mr Rodgers said families had to be air lifted to safety off the top of wool sheds and houses, stock also had to be shot as the water took houses.
On the second day of school Mr Rodgers saw four added children to the classroom who enjoyed seeing helicopters land on their sporting oval.
“The helicopters kept landing out the back of the school. The kids were pretty excited about it,” he said.
Mr Rodgers believed the water was dropping but there had been reports of a possible sudden rise.
Mr Keith Asheneen from the Gravesend Hotel said Gravesend was good, adding the town had been cut off but everyone was coping.
The main damage to the town is the Gravesend bridge.
“Yeah the bridge is pretty damaged but it’s said to be opening on the weekend,” Mr Asheneen said.
Collarenebri are still in the dark according to Sharon McDonald, bartender of the War Memorial Club.
Miss McDonald said that a peak of 8.1 metres was predicted for Friday but already the water was eight metres and rising.
The water is rising from the back of the town and the SES is already starting to sandbag.
“They’ve sandbagged the hospital, main street and built a levy around the sewerage,” Miss McDonald said.
Croppa Creek and Tulloona were quite the same.
Croppa was high and dry according to principal Jenny Schiller.
“We are completely fine. We only received local storm water,” she said.
Boomi’s township had not been flooded.
Principal Mick Collins said the only problem these floods caused Boomi was the roads being cut, therefore there had been no mail or garbage truck routine.
Terry Hie Hie was evacuated by helicopter last Thursday.
Resident Jamie Wiggins reported roughly four or five houses had water a metre high through them.
Sandbags were dropped out by the SES but unfortunately nothing could stop the water from passing through.
“We got a couple of sandbags from the SES but the water still got into the houses,” Mr Wiggins said.
As for Biniguy everything was fine and dandy.
Rodney Brazel said the town was cut for four days.
“I’ve never seen so much water,” he said.
North Star was lucky according to manager of North Star sporting club, Michael Farrell.
“There were no homes with water in them; the town was just cut off,” Mr Farrell said.
He said the roads were in a bad state but the community spirit shown was amazing, adding the council did a great job. “The community really pulled together,” Mr Farrell said.
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