The floodwaters rose into the second floor of Cass Thurston's rental home in Graceville, destroying furniture and personal items and carpeting the backyard with mud.QCOSS says it's still not clear how many families will be unable to return home after the floods"The house is probably a write-off because the walls are all swollen, the kitchen's completely destroyed, and bathrooms," she said.
"There's people worse off than us right now, who don't have places to go and they're living out of evacuation centres — and my heart goes out to them," she said. "People, since COVID, haven't really wanted to pay the higher rental in the inner city, so those rental costs have reduced a bit — but they're not affordable still," she said.
"We have services in Gympie who were telling us, prior to the floods, they were handing out tents for families and people to live in," Ms McVeigh said.
🤔 Revert Air BNBs back to rentals maybe?
Its about time houses in flood prone areas are replaced with flood resistant structures. I am building a Concrete tilt Panel house that could easily be adapted to be flood resistant. They did it with cyclone rated design after Tracey. Oh and bushfire resistant.
Build a new house on high ground.