FORMER tropical cyclone Jasper may have weakened from a category two system into a tropical storm when it entered Queensland last week. Despite this, the weakened system continued to wreak havoc in far North Queensland.
Local authorities have issued flood emergency warnings across Far North Queensland. Residents have been evacuated as rising floodwaters slowly drowned homes. Five days of torrential rain was enough to turn roads into rivers.
At least 10,000 households were knocked out of power as of Sunday afternoon.
Cairns, a city in tropical Far North Queensland, witnessed its worst flooding in more than 100 years, with records that have even exceeded the flooding in 1977.
Local mayors plead for military assistance before clean water runs out as the rising floods and blocked roads prevented them from reaching out to residents living in remote areas.
Cairns airport has been closed for a second time in the week after some planes have gone underwater.
Weather models suggest there is a possibility the former tropical cyclone could regain some power and could develop into a tropical cyclone again this week.
