Residents in the Queensland’s far north gulf region are going “stir crazy” as their isolation due to floods enters a fourth month.

The wet season has been described by locals as the biggest in living memory, with four cyclones hitting the area since December.

Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council chief executive Troy Fraser said the isolation was affecting residents’ mental health.

“This is one of the biggest wet seasons I’ve experienced in my life,” he told the ABC.

“It could be anywhere between one week to four weeks before we see roads opening up again.”

Rain continued to fall across large parts of Queensland over the weekend, with more forecast for the Easter weekend.

Mount Isa saw 120 millimetres over the weekend and Cloncurry recorded 110mm.

“Good Friday certainly has showers everywhere and that should continue through the weekend,” a Weather Bureau spokesperson said.

And torrential monsoonal rain was also affecting a region from Ingham to Mackay.

 

Flooding at Doomadgee has seen residents cut off for weeks. Images supplied to ABC

Early on Monday Townsville was experiencing about 50mm of rain an hour.

The remnants of Cyclone Megan is at the cause of the wet weather, with a low trough sitting over northern WA causing all the moisture.

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