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Nick Gibbs

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Heavy surf and high winds on east coast - The Untold Story

Festival goers waited up to 12 hours to enter Splendour in the Grass as heavy rain hit. (Jason O'BRIEN/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

One person is dead and others have needed rescuing from the roof of a car as a powerful offshore weather system batters Australia's east coast.

The man's body was found by police on Friday morning near Sandy Creek at Nanango, about two and a half hours northwest of Brisbane.

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