Elderly couple Ivy and Mick Tattam are high and dry in a Brisbane evacuation centre, but with no idea of what's happening to their home in flood-bound St George.
The Tattams, both in their 80s, had no time to move possessions to higher ground before they had to leave the south Queensland town.
"We didn't even have a chance," Mrs Tattam said.
"They just came and told us we had to get out and that was it."
Their house had stayed safe in previous floods, but this time they aren't so confident.
"We don't know, and it's low on the ground," Mrs Tattam said.
"It hasn't (flooded) since we've had it, and we've had it quite a few years now."
Only a handful of the 40 St George residents registered at the RNA Showgrounds centre were present on Tuesday afternoon, apparently as most were hitting the shops for necessities.
One evacuee, who did not wish to be named, said most had gone shopping in the city with their flood recovery payments of $1000 each.
"We're still waiting to get ours," she said.
"We'll probably get it tomorrow because we didn't register until today."
Lenore Banks, putting up at the centre with her three children, said her husband had stayed in the St George to help build a temporary levee to hold back the floodwater.
"I rang him this morning and he said our house is right," she said.
"We're on the reasonably safe side of town."
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