Gold Coast is on high alert after 400mm of rain has occured

The Gold Coast is on high alert after a slow-moving thunderstorm dumped more than 400 millimetres of rain in some parts of the region.

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00:00 There's been more heavy rain in southeast Queensland again overnight, 250 mils in some

00:06 parts and the prospect is for more to come.

00:09 The Bureau predicting potentially more than 350 mils of rain might fall.

00:14 Now as you can imagine that's causing flash flooding, road closures and property damage.

00:19 The State Emergency Service says 700 calls for help on the Gold Coast and the scenic

00:23 rim in the past 24 hours.

00:26 Authorities are saying for those people living in low-lying areas they should consider evacuating

00:30 to higher ground and of course they're again pleading with people to not enter floodwaters.

00:36 Now the risk with all of this of course is that it could get much worse.

00:40 The already saturated ground can't absorb any more water so the surface water runoff

00:45 is likely to cause further flash flooding and further road closures.

00:50 There's an alert out for potential water releases from the North Pine and Somerset dams.

00:55 There's also a minor flood warning for the Brisbane River.

00:58 For those people living on the Gold Coast they have copped a battering in recent days.

01:02 For most people the power is now back on but there are still 11,000 homes without electricity

01:08 and of course the prospect of more heavy rain means that the clean-up task potentially gets

01:13 much bigger and potentially takes a lot longer.

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