Ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily updates: Severe weather warning and flood watches remain in place as weather system moves west as a tropical low

 Hungry Jacks copped a whopper from ex-Cyclone Kirrily at Mundingburra in Townsville.

Thanks to Ben and Alex Gertz for this pic. 

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Powerlines were knocked down at Keslo, in Townsville.

And officers were out early at Hamilton Island and Mackay.

Reporting by Jessica Lamb

Townsville City Councillor Margie Ryder says Bluewater is "blessed" to have had only minor damage. 

The township was one of the worst-struck in the 2019 Townsville floods.

Cr Ryder says a tree fell on a toilet block and some powerlines came down on Forestry Road. 

"I think we're all blessed with what happened and there will still be some sad stories and there'll be some things, but we can fix it," she says.

"As the mayor said this morning, nobody died. So I think that's a celebration, and we should all celebrate because it's Australia Day."

Cr Ryder says her family "overdid" their preparations.

"We overdid what we were preparing for, but then I slept well," she says.

"Like I literally slept last night knowing that if something worse was happening, everything was okay."

Farmers were watering their sugar cane all week ahead of Kirrirly crossing so the winds didn't snap the canes.

Unfortunately Mark Governato's son's canes out near Ingham didn't flatten — they broke off.

"I've just heard from our son and he's not doing so well," Mr Governato says.

"His cane didn't lay over, it broke off. Breaking off is not a nice way to go. It was probably a metre-and-half tall.

"I thought it would be wet enough for it to fall over but obviously it wasn't."

Ayr residents tell ABC's Tobi Loftus the cyclone was "meek and mild" but also "pretty windy".

Reporting by Victoria Pengilley

Bowen has emerged with little damage from ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily.

Brenda Tengbom and her daughter Jennifer were among a handful of residents who lost power due to strong wind gusts.

"We had the generators to keep the fridge going … it was pretty calm really," Brenda says.

The local pub has been boarded up and was due to be closed for three days, but swung open its doors this morning to thirsty locals, many still keen to mark today's public holiday.

Reporting by Siobhan Heanue

This tree was felled by cyclone gusts at Townsville South State School. The school was closed yesterday.

Our man out collecting mud crabs in Townsville has one for ABC's Michael Rowland.

Reporter on the ground Kristy Sexton-McGrath tells Michael she'll send it down.

Tourism Whitsundays CEO Rick Hamilton says the industry has coped a huge financial hit as a result of the cyclone.

"For us as a destination, given that it's the busiest day of the year, you'd have to say the losses would be in the tens of millions," he says.

"With all the island resorts pretty much down to zero, there's a lot of work that's got to be done to get those back up and running ... it could have been, certainly, a lot worse."

He encouraged people not to bypass the region if they were planning on visiting.

"I would say over the next 24 to 48 hours, operators will be back out in the water again," he says.

"Hopefully, over the next couple of days, the weather turns really, really good and we'll see the town back to how it should be. I encourage everyone to come to the Whitsundays."

Burdekin Mayor Lyn McLaughlin says there were no injuries or calls for help in the region overnight as Kirrily crossed over.

Energex's Chris Hooper says the outages stretch from Ingham in the north to Home Hill in the south.

He says crews are checking out the damage and power will come on progressively through the day.

"Some customers will see their power go on, some will see their power go off as we identify further damage, and that's just to make it safe."

Reporting by Chloe Chomicki

The wind from Kirrily was strong enough to flatten this billboard in Burdell — one of Townsville's northern suburbs.

You can see the steel underneath has been twisted.

Reporting by Lily Nothling

The Smith family in Alligator Creek have weeks of work ahead to clear the mess of fallen trees from their property.

Angela Smith says it was a sleepless night as the system swept through.

"There wasn't as much rain as I thought which was probably a good thing, but the wind was awful," she says.

"We seem to have got more damage than in Yasi — we seem to have lost a lot more trees.

"It looks pretty bad but there's nothing structural, none of the cars or the house were damaged. I'm trying to think we were lucky."

This was posted to a Townsville Facebook group after the cyclone knocked power out for thousands there.

"I was lucky enough to keep power last night. I have run some power to the front if anyone needs some emergency phone charging, etc."

A fallen tree and powerline have crushed this car and ute and trapped the owners in their home at Kelso.

Our intrepid reporter Tobi Loftus filmed from his Ayr hotel as Kirrily crossed over, and was out again this morning to see the damage.

Rail between Rockhampton and Mackay has reopened, and crews are working to reopen the rest of the network — although there's no fixed time yet, Queensland Rail's Scott Cornish says.

The network north of Rockhampton was closed yesterday ahead of the cyclone.

It's not a regular schedule today — but should be tomorrow.

Mr Cornish says the network "has fared quite well".

You can find service updates here.

Reporting by Julia Andre

Lauren Barry-Murphy and Zoe Seymour travelled from Ireland to experience the Whitsundays and only found out there was a tropical cyclone forecast for the region yesterday morning.

"We're disappointed things are cancelled and we haven't seen too much nightlife yet," Ms Barry-Murphy says.

"We just had a few day trips and water activities booked but we've just been walking around the town and seeing what we can do," Ms Seymour added.

Most Island tours from Airlie Beach remain cancelled today and over the weekend but island resort connections are back up and running after being cancelled yesterday.

Rachel Townend is from the UK and has been travelling up the east coast of Australia for the last month with her boyfriend.

They just arrived in Airlie Beach today after being on an overnight bus, and are staying in the tourist hotspot for a few days.

"We're going to do the scenic flight but were told a couple of days ago that the weather wasn't looking too great," she says.

"The weather looks ok to me!"

Washed up at Cannonvale, this boat was rescued by crane this morning.

Reporting by Owen Jacques

SES regional coordinator Darryl Camp says fallen trees and branches are the biggest issue at the moment in areas hit by the cyclone.

"The majority of the [calls for service] are trees down, fallen across their driveway, hitting the house, blocking the vehicle," he says.

"The rain didn't seem to be quite as heavy as we expected yesterday, especially around Townsville. We only registered, like, 40mm in most places.

"Further up the coast, Halifax caught quite a bit of rain and up around Paluma, but we haven't had any reports from there as yet."

He urged people not to drive around looking for damage.

"We've got teams out there trying to get to places, all the other emergency services are trying to go to places," he says.

"If we can keep the roads as reasonably free as possible, it'll make for an easier access for all emergency services."