“We had to get our stuff and get out, it wasn’t safe,” Pike said.
“Our kids are a bit shaken up and upset about it all.”
Reconstruction work is expected at the site as the clean-up begins across north Queensland after record rainfall triggered flooding, claiming two lives and forcing hundreds to evacuate.
“The holiday stay had been our income for the last 12 months, and the last 2½ months had been slow with not much coming in,” Pike said.
“I have to look for another job. We’ve been working on the basics with not much food around the place with roads cut off [by flooding].
“We’ve got to knuckle down now and make ends meet.”
A nearby bed and breakfast kindly reached out to provide the Pike family accommodation for a month.
After that, Pike said he was not sure what the future held.
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the Pike family, with almost $7000 raised by Thursday.
“It’s all up in the air but we are all banding together,” Pike said.
“The landslide had come directly toward us, ending up about 70 metres from our front door.
“It could have been a lot worse. We are still here to tell the tale.”
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