It's not just residents being evacuated from Far North Queensland this morning, with the Young Animal Protection Society in Smithfield, going to extreme lengths to save the animals in its care.
Shelter supervisor, Kelly Brown told Today the animals had been evacuated last week due to ex-tropical cyclone Jasper, and not long after they had moved them back in, floodwaters started pouring in.
"It was a bit unexpected, we started getting the animals back and because it wasn't an emergency evacuation, we still had some of our beautiful boarding dogs with us," she said.
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"And then the rain kept coming and coming and we back onto the beautiful Katana wetlands, so by the time we were bringing dogs back out, we were all running through almost knee-high water as the kennels filled up."
Thankfully, because of helpful people in the community, all the animals in the shelter were saved and able to be temporarily housed.
But Kelly said the situation is unlike anything she and her co-workers have ever seen.
"It's really bad, in my time in Cairns, I have never seen it like this before," she said.
"I think the saddest thing as well was when I left work yesterday and I just saw my boss Carol - who has been the heart and soul of the place for the last 28 years and she said she has never seen it like this before, so that was just so sad."
See the full chat with Kelly in the video above
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