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The sugar cane and banana industries are trashed- even one of the sugar mills is damaged.

Massive rain causing flooding riverine flooding now isolating areas that dodged serious tidal storm surge.

Still no reports of deaths or serious injury (one man is missing after trying to move a yacht to avoid a storm surge) - and it was more massive than Katrina. But it did sidestep the biggest settled areas like Townsville. The newer building codes seemed to help - most building 10-15 years old held up very well, unless trees fell on them.

Now just a massive tropical rain depressive heading for Alice Springs. Flooding in some of the areas previously affected is expected.

Over another billion dollars loss to agricultural industry alone ... over 3,000 farmers, maybe no bananas from North Qld for a year...