YOUNG FAMILY LIVING IN A TENT, FORCED TO COLLECT RAIN WATER IN DIRTY BUCKETS AS SUPPLIES SLOWLY ARRIVE
One young Queensland family spent last night sleeping in a tent in an open field at the showgrounds on the edge of Innisfail.
The Army set up the tent as part of a small tent city for the newly homeless. While many residents have fled the devastated town to stay with friends and families, hundreds have been left with nowhere to go, and no way to get out of the area.
"They told us to come here," the young father told the Australian newspaper, "but I've just found out we have to leave here because the sewerage system has started to fail. My partner doesn't really want to stay in a tent with a baby ... we were told there would be food and water here but we've hardly got anything." Meals arrived with charity workers, but fresh water was still in short supply. The homeless were forced to clean out buckets and bottles to try and collect the rainwater now adding to the flooding in the region.
