Surely there would be provisions for them, I mean, its not like its *their* fault!
My brother and his wife and kids live on the Bellinger River at Thora (near Bellingen, near Coffs Harbour), and whilst they weren't flooded, they were cut off from town...where I'm from, the annual average rainfall is ~7xx mm, they got 4xx mm in 2 days!!
Crazy!!!