Gold Coast residents are being urged to stay updated with emergency alerts after heavy rain triggered flash flooding across the city. Mackenzie Colahan reports.
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00:00The Gold Coast beaches have copped an absolute battering over the last few days.
00:06You can see here the swell has eased, but that hasn't stopped all this erosion which
00:10is going to take months and months to recover.
00:13The main threat now here on the Gold Coast is this flooding rain.
00:16It's still coming down very heavily.
00:18Some parts of the city have received as much as a quarter of a metre in the last 24 hours
00:23and that has prompted a number of emergency alerts to be issued.
00:26A major flood warning for the Albert River at Beanley went out at 10.30 last night, which
00:30includes the northern Gold Coast suburbs of Luscombe, Yatla, Stapleton, Alberton and Gilberton
00:36and the Logan suburbs of Tambourine, Cedar Creek, Wolfdean, Bannockburn, Windaroo, Mount
00:42Warren Park, Beanley and Eagleby.
00:44Those residents have been told it is too dangerous to leave, they should get up high and stay
00:49where they are.
00:50Earlier last night a warning was issued for Corumbin, Corumbin Valley, Talabudgera, Talabudgera
00:55Valley in Illinois, flood prone areas on the southern Gold Coast and flooding on the
01:00Narang River saw a Watch and Act alert issued for Carrara, Benoa, Emerald Lakes, Clear Island
01:05Waters, Mermaid Waters and Merrimack.
01:08There were a couple of people who had to be rescued from their cars last night and authorities
01:11are reminding everyone not to drive through flood waters.
01:14I have done the rounds this morning and it seems like so far we appear to have dodged
01:18a bullet.
01:19Our major rivers and creeks on the Gold Coast here are tidal low and the big concern was
01:23this morning's high tide at 5am.
01:26From what I have been told the flood waters on the Gold Coast's central and southern suburbs
01:29peaked last night and have been receding but there is a lot of water coming downstream
01:34from the hinterland too.
01:36That means the situation can change very quickly with more heavy rain expected today which
01:41could lead to life threatening flooding.
01:43The Bureau says the rain threat should be easing from this afternoon so we're not out
01:47of the woods just yet.
01:48Everyone should continue to monitor the situation very closely for the next 24 hours.
01:53For more information visit www.fema.gov