With large boulders, trees and mud strewn along much of the road to the Queensland town, residents are pooling their resources to keep cupboards stocked.
A bulldozer operator is in hospital after his machine rolls several times at the Saraji coal mine, the same mine where 49-year-old operator Allan Houston died in 2018.
It is hard enough for turtle hatchings to make it safely to the water, but try negotiating mounds of washed up flood debris stretching for kilometres along Queensland’s beaches.
A centre which offers play and interaction for people of all abilities has been forced to close after being completely trashed. Its boss is unsure when it will reopen.
As a wrecking ball looms over 300 homes in the small town of Glenden, the local mayor is pleading with the state government and rival coal mining companies to save the community.