The North Queensland city receives a drenching of up to 200 millimetres, resulting in flooded roads and requests for State Emergency Service personnel to help with leaking roofs.
"We have Holts Road, which goes down to Glendaragh Road, and Glendaragh Road from the highway end coming back around, that doesn't normally go underwater and it's underwater now."When we were on-site we couldn't find any evidence of anybody in the water, so we presume they've driven through it and got to the other side."
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Flood Watch alert for North Tropical Coast catchments and parts of the Central Coast and Gulf Country.Golf Links Road connects Beaconsfield to Richmond in Mackay. Earlier Thursday SES volunteer Erik Lindbergs said cars had been cut off by floodwaters overnight in areas around Eton.
"A lot of those areas are serviced by canals that do run from the local reservoir, so those areas do flood pretty regularly, even with relatively light rain," he said."If there is heavy rain about, be especially careful."
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