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As emergency services prepare to work overnight rescuing stranded North Queenslanders from flood waters and structural damaged dwellings, it is not lost on anyone that a monumental clean up will begin tomorrow.
This comes as a category 4 weather system crosses over the North Queensland peninsula.
Making landfall just north of Cairns, Cyclone Narelle is currently halfway across Cape York.
Residents has been advised to stay indoors - if they aren't qualified and employed to navigate such natural disasters as part of local disaster response crews.
Everyone else, is free to get as maggot as possible - as part of a traditional Queensland ritual of 'riding out the storm' while listening to Powderfinger on a fully charged bluetooth speaker and drinking cans of local beer by candlelight.
Further south, some residents are braving the less threatening, but equally wet, peripheral of this weather system - with some even heading to their local beer garden to charge schooners under umbrellas.
Premier David Crisafulli says Bottle Shops in the Far North have CLOSED, and that anyone who missed out on a grog run earlier in the week will have to make do with what they have hidden in the pantry.
"That dusty old bottle of Brandy or Port will have to do for now" said the Premier.
"Baileys and milk maybe"
"But we don't want anyone heading into town. The shops are all closed. Just ride this one out on whatever you've got and we'll see you tomorrow on the main street with shovels"
"Wear some trousers and closed in shoes. Don't try and be heroes"
