“Over the coming weeks as a council, we’ll look to see what else we can do to mitigate this sort of thing happening again in the future and look at costings, budget.
“At the moment a lot of people are just trying to get their head around it, trying to understand ‘wow this really happened, and it happened to me’.
“[We’re] trying to give everyone a little bit of space to just deal with that, but … we’ll put our hand up to help in any way we can.”
The BoM also recorded 47.2mm of rain in Port Lincoln on Thursday while Coulta, around 30km west of Cummins, received 38.8mm.
It comes only days after severe thunderstorms hit town’s further north on the Eyre Peninsula, with Kimba receiving 213mm of rain in the past seven days.
Key road and rail transport routes remain closed across the state due to damage from this week’s storms.
A 250km stretch of the Stuart Highway between Glendambo and Cooper Pedy has now been closed for five days due to floodwaters.
The closure has forced trucks serving the Adelaide to Darwin route to take a “massive detour” through New South Wales and Queensland, SA Freight Council Executive Officer Evan Knapp says.
