Carnarvon residents devastated by Gascoyne’s worst floods in a decade

Earlier this month, a tropical low dumped hundreds of millimetres of rain across north-west Western Australia, causing the worst floods in the Gascoyne region in a decade. 

The town of Carnarvon is surrounded by five levees, the largest of which was built in 2013 after major flooding in 2010.

When last fortnight’s floods hit, the town centre was protected — but for residents outside the levees, like Connie Elliot, it was a different story.

She and other residents of the caravan park were prepared to…