On Sunday, residents of Mount Tamborine confronted deputy premier, Cameron Dick, asking why the defence force had not been called in.Įmergency management minister, Nikki Boyd, said the SES had received about 4,000 calls for assistance since Christmas, 460 of them in past 24 hours.Įmergency crews conducted 10 swift water rescues on Monday. “So it really is about horses for courses.” But working with Energy Queensland it was determined that the generator support we could get through ADF didn’t suit our network …” he said. “Yesterday, we had a conversation about the potential use of ADF generators to support our generation network. “If there’s any uncertainty about your house, and you live near a river, don’t wait for an evacuation call,” he said.Ĭhelepy said the state would make a further request for federal assistance. Gold Coast mayor, Tom Tate, urged residents to make a decision early about whether they needed to evacuate. Two evacuation centres – at Nerang Bicentennial Community Centre and Coomera Indoor Sports Centre – opened on Monday afternoon. Gold Coast residents are urged to make a decision early about whether they need to evacuate.

There is also a risk of dangerous thunderstorms across “much broader parts of central and eastern Queensland”.Ī flood warning has been issued for the Nerang, Pimpama and Coomera rivers, where water levels are expected to continue rising with periods of intense rain.

“And that’s when we see those really dangerous flooding conditions developing.” “It’s when we get so much rain in such a short space of time that it just it overwhelms our infrastructure, our drainage systems, our waterways,” she said. She said south-east Queensland residents should be wary of very intense localised rainfall, which can lead to flash flooding.

The Bureau of Meteorology is not expecting conditions to ease and a severe weather warning to be cancelled until Wednesday, senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said.

Upper Springbrook on the Gold Coast had already recorded 389mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9am on Monday, while 276mm fell at Little Nerang Dam and 264mm at Hotham Creek, near Pimpama. South-east Queensland was hit by a “dangerous” severe thunderstorm early on Monday morning. “It is up to the federal government to allocate those tasks to the appropriate agency private contractor, defence, whoever they think provide the best skill sets to support us in our cleanup efforts.”

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