
Hundreds of Queenslanders have fled to higher ground or been rescued from floodwaters as thousands remain on alert as severe thunderstorms lash the state's southeast.
A massive low-pressure trough has been dumping intense rainfall - up to 160mm in six hours - on the Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Darling Downs, Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast, Wide Bay-Burnett, Bundaberg and Gladstone regions.