‘Really quite scary’: with no power and dwindling supplies, Queensland’s flooded north dreads the worst

‘We’ve got the most water we’ve ever had in our time here’: the inundated cane farm of Georgina and Donal Bosworth in the north Queensland town of Ingham. Photograph: Georgina and Donal Bosworth

Georgina Bosworth is sitting on the deck of her north Queensland farmhouse on Monday morning enjoying a hot cup of coffee – something she describes as a “very precious commodity right now”. “Hang on a second,” she says into the phone and calls out to her husband.

“Donal! Someone’s in a boat going over the top of our cane paddock.”