The media are out of control with their ignorant misreporting of all these major weather events. It is a combination of lack of knowledge and understanding and a rabid focus on hyping things up as much as possible to whip society into a frenzy so that they sell more papers, get higher TV ratings etc.
The closest I have seen in the media to getting it right was describing the rain event as 'the tail of ex TC Yasi', this is still technically incorrect though (but a lot better than some media reports that is was directly a result of ex Yasi). No part of ex TC Yasi has come anywhere near us, it is a simple case of a low pressure trough dragging down moisture from the ex cyclone. The actual mechanism for the rainfall was the surface and upper level trough. The enhanced moisture that came from ex Yasi and also left over moisture from Anthony that became trapped over us, intensified the rainfall that we got from this system.
Unfortunately, that's not good enough for the media, it's not dramatic enough to just say that, they need to make it sound more exciting and more alarming. It makes me very mad.
Anyway, the next system that others are talking about now looks like a pretty major one as well. There won't be as much rain as with this system at this stage, unless we get very high instability yet again to spark off more storms. As a rain band with embedded storms we won't see the same extremes. It will still be another very large rain event though and widespread as well.