A North Queensland man refuses to leave his house despite Tropical Cyclone Debbie uprooting it from its stumps and leaving it on a 2-metre slant.

Ivan Warden, who lives in North Bloomsbury, an hour north of Mackay, was alone in his house during last week's extreme weather when one side of the house was lifted off its stumps and deposited sideways on the ground.

While the back of the house remained raised, the front is now only about six inches off the ground.

The impact left the 64-year-old disability support pensioner trapped in his lounge room for a night until he was rescued by a neighbour.

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Mr Warden was sitting in his lounge room watching the news last Tuesday when strong wind gusts started pounding the house.

"There was one big gust and another one followed it," he said.

"The house fell down and moved sideways. I rolled off the chair into the TV cabinet, landed on top of my old 14-year-old dog, hurt him a little bit, hurt my ribs and elbows.

"But I picked myself up and had a look round and thought 'Oh, I can't get out'. I was trapped inside the house."

Steep climb to bedroom

Mr Warden now faces a steep climb to get to his bedroom and is sleeping with his head at the foot of his bed, which is slanted about 1m higher than the headboard.

"I was sleeping with my head against the headboard but I kept sliding down and cracking my neck, so I turned around the other way so my feet are at the headboard now, and I sleep like that," he said.

Mr Warden's house is uninsured, but thinks it can be repaired. ( ABC News: Adam Stephen )

"If we don't get the house picked up fairly soon I'll get blocks to raise it up to the level."

The house's new tilt has jammed the doors to the two spare bedrooms, making them impossible to get into, but Mr Warden can still access the toilet and bathroom.

"The toilet door was open but one of the internal walls under the house has come up through the toilet floor, and it's probably got about a 150mm high piece of wood [jutting out]," he said.

"I would have been jammed in there.

"I'm very resilient and I managed to get my solar going and my pump and I am showering in there, even though it's on a funny angle."

Looting fear makes him stay put

Despite visits from the police and SES urging him to leave, Mr Warden said he was worried about looters stealing his belongings.

"We had a lot of trouble with people thieving around this area before the cyclone and I have seen looters around. They have been watching," he said.

A lower internal wall burst through the toilet floor during the storm. ( ABC News: Adam Stephen )

"So that nothing goes missing I stay here, and that's the easiest way is to stay here and look after the property.

"I worked very hard over all the years. I've got a lot of tools and a lot of things I want to protect so I'll just stay here and look after it."

Mr Warden said he had stabilised the house to make it "reasonably safe" to continue living in, and he is confident the damage can be fixed.

"It's steel-framed and cyclone rodded and it has a steel frame underneath it as well. It will be able to be lifted," he said.

"You can get a crane to lift it up again, or two cranes."

Uninsured but upbeat

Mr Warden is uninsured so will rely on available government disaster relief assistance, as well as the help of his friends.

"I'm not insured because being on a pension I just couldn't afford it," he said.

"Hopefully I can get a little bit [of assistance] to help raise the house.

Two vintage cars were crushed under the house. ( ABC News: Adam Stephen )

"I'm one of those people who help others before I help myself, so I've got a few favours that I'll probably call in."

Two valuable vintage cars stored under the house, which Mr Warden was painstakingly restoring — a 1965 Ford Thunderbird and a 1955 Ford MK1 Zephyr — were almost completely crushed.

"That was my retirement fund, for perhaps if I have to go into a nursing home later on, I had something to sell," he said.

But despite the loss to his belongings and the ongoing disruption to his living environment, Mr Warden remains upbeat.

"I'm going to grow one leg longer than the other," he said.

"I'm fairly sad about the loss of everything but I'm very glad that my dogs are now OK and I'm OK and my other animals are OK.

"I was more concerned about the animals than myself."