Swift water rescue teams have pulled over 40 people from floodwaters in southeast Queensland on Thursday, after torrential rain from Cyclone Debbie hit the region.
Most were people stranded in cars by flash flooding across Brisbane, and on the Gold and Sunshine coasts, where some businesses and roads have been flooded.
On the Sunshine Coast a family at Tanawah was rescued from a house, including four children aged 11 months to nine years.
Their father, who has a broken back, has stayed at the house because he can't be moved, but has medication and food supplies to last a few days, a rescue worker has told the Nine Network.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Katarina Carroll said information was coming in quickly.
"There has been close to 40 swift water rescues in the southeast, those figures are around an hour-and-a-half old so I expect they would have increased," Commissioner Carroll told reporters.
"We haven't received any reports of injuries and we certainly haven't seen a spike in triple-0 calls which is very good at this stage, but we still have several hours to go before we're out of the woods."
The commissioner urged people to stay in their homes and avoid going outside, especially driving on roads, if they could avoid it.
The rescues in southeast Queensland followed nearly 90 in the Mackay region overnight and this morning from floodwaters that left many stranded on the roofs of their homes and in their cars.
About 40 people were rescued by swift water crews in the Homebush area southwest of Mackay, and moved to the West Leagues Club, including a heavily pregnant woman.
