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January 24th, 2012 
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Video: Cars swamped in Brisbane floods
(ABC News)
There has been another night of heavy rain across south-east Queensland, with roads closed, homes evacuated, and the warning of more to come.
Hundreds of millimetres of rain has been dumped across the Gold and Sunshine coasts and Brisbane, bringing flash flooding, landslips and hundreds of road closures.
Evacuation centres have been opened at Narangba and Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, with about a dozen homes evacuated in Burpengary yesterday.
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The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for today, saying flooding could worsen in some areas, with more heavy rain predicted throughout the day and for the rest of the week.
Springbrook on the Gold Coast has recorded 325 millimetres of rain in the past 24 hours, while Brisbane has had up to 250 millimetres and there have been similar falls on the Sunshine Coasts.
Fox Rogers from the Sunshine Coast disaster management centre says there are fears some small towns could become isolated.
“If the rain continues to fall at the current rate, yes it’s quite likely that some of these small townships will be isolated,” he said.
“That can happen fairly quickly; the water comes up as it rains, and then the water can also go down. It really will depend on the amount of rain that keeps falling over the next few hours.”
Police have reported dozens of traffic incidents since the big wet began and officials are warning people to stay out of floodwaters.
EMQ director of operations Warren Bridson says emergency crews worked through a “long, hard night” all over the south-east of the state.
“The predictions are… more rain tonight and again tomorrow,” he said last night.
“I would expect the disaster management systems will escalate tomorrow, if that transpires therefore there will be more activities around the local disaster management groups.
“We’re asking the community to really be aware tonight about what’s predicted.”
Brett Harrison from the weather bureau says today’s outlook for south-east Queensland is almost identical to yesterday.
“There is expected to be more rain areas throughout the day,” he said.
“We have seen the rain extending a little bit further inland, particularly getting closer to the south-eastern parts of the Darling Downs, but generally expecting rain areas to continue right along the eastern districts of the south-east coast.”
Rescues
On Tuesday 12 homes were evacuated as a precaution at Burpengary, north of Brisbane, and another dozen homes have been flooded further north on the Sunshine Coast.
Authorities say homes further west to Ipswich have also been evacuated.
Two men a dog had to be rescued when their car became stranded in flood waters at Lawnton, north of Brisbane, around 10.30pm (AEST).
The Department of Community Safety say there were numerous calls for help from other stranded drivers but no one has been hurt.
At Boondall, in Brisbane’s north, a childcare centre was inundated and the downpour also caused delays at Brisbane airport.
Three people escaped after their car was stuck on a flooded road in Brisbane’s south-west and cars were seen floating on some streets in the inner city.
Thousands of homes were without power yesterday.
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