00:00Daniel Spindler and his wife are counting the cost of Cyclone Alfred.
00:07It is a roller coaster. There's a lot more to be done.
00:11The family had a lucky escape after a tree destroyed half their Reedy Creek home last weekend.
00:18They're hoping to salvage what they can, but have a long road ahead.
00:23My assessor told us it's at least six months, up to a year or even two years until we can come back here and live here.
00:30The family of four are in short-term temporary accommodation, but will soon need to find somewhere else to live.
00:37My little one, four-year-old, he's at Kindy and I've got an eight-year-old, he has Level 2 ASD and ADHD.
00:45He thrives in routine and stability.
00:48About 53,000 insurance claims have been lodged in the wake of Cyclone Alfred.
00:54The claims are quite spread, everything from power outage, so food spoilage, to leaking roofs and water inundation.
01:02It's expected the repair works will put more pressure on the construction sector.
01:08The state's peak building body estimates there's already a shortage of 20,000 tradies each year in Queensland.
01:16We've got the Olympics coming a few years down the track, so we're already stretched. This is just going to exacerbate it.
01:24The Insurance Council is trying to entice tradies from interstate and New Zealand to help with the rebuild in south-east Queensland,
01:32putting a call out for electricians, plasterers, builders and roofers.
01:37But for others, the clean-up is almost over.
01:41Just under 14,000 homes remain without power, down from more than 300,000 at the peak of the weather event.
01:50A flood-affected school on the Gold Coast will fully reopen on Monday.
01:55In Harvey Bay, the SES are wrapping up after responding to 400 call-outs.
02:01It's been pretty intense. The rainstorm came in, it was not super forecasted for that event to hit here.
02:08Life slowly getting back to normal.
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