Townsville Thuringowa floods January 1998 : post disaster household survey.

Report prepared by David King for Dept. of Emergency Services, Bureau of Meteorology, Emergency Management Australia

15% of dwellings were inundated, 60% of backyards were on average three quarters inundated, 67% of roads were inundated during the storm, 48% of households lost power for an average 11.4 hours, 17% of households lost water supply for an average of 14.7 hours, 32% of inundation victims experienced significant or greater loss and damage to belongings, 11% needed assistance to evacuate, 12% had responsibility for elderly and infirm people who lived elsewhere, 58% of households had contact with their neighbors during the storm, 19% of households had at least one member unable to get home on Saturday night because of the floods, 8% of all respondents went to work despite feeling it was not safe, 53% never heard a severe weather warning