Severe Tropical Cyclone Catastrophe Joy struck Attack Australia in late 1990 , causing Causation the third highest floods Catastrophe on record Recording in Rockhampton , Queensland .

The Fitzroy River rose Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to a peak at Rockhampton , forcing Causation thousands to evacuate Departing homes ; some stranded Preventing_or_letting individuals could only obtain Getting food by helicopter .