The Queensland town of Clermont has recorded its wettest day in 110 years as ex-cyclone Koji batters parts of the state with more than 200 millimetres of rainfall and flash flooding.
"This is my house, this is currently my yard," Molly Bradshaw said as she filmed herself in gushing brown water that covered almost everything as far as the eye could see.
"It's showing no sign of stopping at the moment."
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Nearly an hour after the teacher spoke to 9News from her home in Clermont, near Rockhampton in Central Queensland, she was heading for higher ground.
"We've never seen it like this in my life," she said.
By Monday afternoon, evacuations were under way, with emergency alerts in place.
The coal mining community had been desperate for rain, but perhaps just not as much as was being dumped by ex-cyclone Koji.
Clermont recorded just more than 200 millimetres of rain in the 24 hours to 9am on Monday, the wettest day since 1916, which is regarded as the country's second-worst flood in history, claiming 65 lives.
Koji was downgraded to a tropical low as it made landfall between Ayr and Bowen on Sunday morning and was yesterday over the Central Highlands and Coalfield regions.
Wind speeds of 113km/h were recorded at Hamilton Island, while Mackay received about 250 millimetres of rain in less than 24 hours.
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The tropical low was weakening as it slowly tracked north-west over land, but was still impacting towns in its firing line.
A severe weather warning was in place for Capricornia and parts of Central Coast and Whitsundays, Central Highlands and Coalfields and Central West Forecast Districts between Mackay and Rockhampton.
Rockhampton was being told to expect up to 130 millimetres of rain, with Rolleston further inland potentially copping up to 200 millimetres of rain.
Authorities issued a flash flood emergency warning for Clermont.
Authorities also issued an emergency warning for increased rainfall and possible flash flooding for the Rubyvale and Sapphire areas.
Premier David Crisafulli told Today he was proud of how the state had responded to the ex-cyclone, but insisted the danger was far from over.
"Our message remains that there is that risk of heavy rainfall, and that's always been what we've consistently said," he said.
"There are the real risk of having those really heavy rains, which could lead to flooding because those catchments are very full."
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There have been no fatalities from the weekend's storms, but more than 40,000 livestock and cattle are estimated to have perished due to the weather.
A large rescue took place at Greenacre, near Rockhampton, where a woman, her two children and two dogs were caught in their car.
Drinking water in some areas, including the Pioneer Valley region, has been impacted, with residents told to use their own clean containers to access clean water from temporary tankers.
More than 22,000 properties were without power on Sunday night, but Ergon had restored power to 90 per cent of those homes and businesses.
"That is now down to 2500," Crisafulli said.
Crisafulli praised the efforts of communities, councils and emergency services and the federal government for helping limit the impact of the severe weather.
"That doesn't happen by magic. That happens because people work through the night and resources are on the ground," he said.
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The premier urged Queenslanders to remain vigilant over the next couple of days: "Queenslanders know how to handle heavy rain, we are a very disaster-resilient state, we'll just continue to put out that messaging that there is that risk in the next 24-48 hours of some really significant rainfall in patches.
"If people do the right thing and make their preparations, we will get through this unscathed."
Crisafulli also confirmed he would chair the state disaster meeting in Proserpine in the Whitsundays region, insisting people in the western parts of the state being smashed by the wild weather "will not be forgotten".
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