The physical battering sustained by Queensland communities hit by Cyclone Debbie will be followed with an economic hit, as the total damage to the Whitsunday region becomes clear.
The tourism, agriculture and mining sectors are all reeling for the category four cyclone which continues to damage the state.
Farmers were in the immediate firing line of the system, with heavy rain and winds tearing through local sugarcane, vegetable and fruit crops.
The region accounts for 95 per cent of Australia's tomato and capsicum crop at this time of year, and the Queensland Farmers' Federation said those producers would feel the pain in the short term.
"Unfortunately there's no kind of insurance for these types of losses, so they're definitely going to go backwards," the QFF's Ross Henry told AAP.
"There's over a billion dollars worth of agricultural production in that region, and it's just been hit with a category 4 cyclone, so we expect the damage to be quite large."
The region's canegrowers have also been devastated by the storm, with a 300km stretch of cane fields ravaged.
More than 1000 cane growers live in the area, and are responsible for supplying about half of Australia's $2 billion sugar industry.
"We do know that hundreds of hectares of sugarcane has been flattened by Cyclone Debbie's winds with the Mackay and Proserpine districts the worst affected," Canegrowers CEO Dan Galligan said.
"Some of the cane will have been snapped or pulled up by the roots and some of it is underwater."
There's also serious concerns about the fate of the Wilmar-owned mill at Proserpine, which was right in Debbie's path.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Wednesday travelled to Bowen to survey damage wrought by the storm, and has flagged possible assistance packages for affected farmers.
"I will be speaking with the prime minister about that, because we want to make sure that we help our farmers on the road to recovery," she said.
The tourism industry is fearful it could see long-term effects from Debbie's destruction - which wrought havoc on Hayman, Hamilton Daydream Islands, as well as Airlie Beach's marinas.
The Whitsunday region generates $700 million annually through tourism, supporting around 10,000 jobs.
"When tourism stops, everyone suddenly realises they're in the tourism industry," Queensland Tourism Industry Council boss Daniel Gschwind said.
"They may not have direct contact with businesses, but there are businesses supplying tourism businesses and supporting them, and those tourism dollars flow through the community."
Mr Gschwind said local industry took a $400 million hit following Cyclone Yasi in 2011, which was mostly caused by public perception, not reality.
"Cairns for example, we've had reports of people cancelling trips there. Entirely unnecessary, Cairns is fine."
Col Mckenzie from Australian Marine Park Tourism Operators said the government needed to look after the tourism industry as much as farmers.
In addition, most central Queensland mines and railways are at a standstill as driving rain threatens to halt coal production for some time.
