Police say a man has died after his car was swept off a road at Mount Kilcoy in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
Swift water rescue teams were called to the scene late this afternoon, but the car was washed away.
Emergency crews have found the man's body downstream.
Pomona flooding
Since yesterday morning, almost 200 millimetres of rain has been recorded at Mount Mee in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
Flash flooding is affecting low-lying areas of Pomona.
Water is flowing through the yards of several homes.
Pomona resident Mary Lehane says her home flooded three times last year and again this year.
She says she can't take it any more.
"I just don't know what to do, I'm at my wit's end," she said.
"I'm 60 and I've had enough, I'm tired.
"My son's got cancer, we're running out of money, and this is the worse thing - where's the help?"
The Pomona fire station is also flooded, while the railway station underpass has been swamped.
Several other parts of south-east Queensland are on flood alert as heavy falls drench the rain-soaked region.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk says more than 2,500 sandbags have been collected, but the council is hoping they will not be needed.
"While the amount of water we are expected to receive is a lot, it is spread over a longer period of time," he said.
Bruce Grady from Emergency Management Queensland says another 200 millimetres of rain is likely to fall.
"Those predictions are an average over the entire catchment so what we might get is very heavy falls that will fall in very specific area," he said.
SEQ Water has increased releases from Wivenhoe and North Pine Dams as a precaution.
Mr Grady says the slow-moving weather system is nowhere near as severe as ex-tropical cyclone Oswald last month.
"We have got a very different weather pattern at the moment," he said.
"We are not seeing the same amount of rain - we are certainly not seeing the same level of wind from this event, so a very different set of circumstances.
"People just need to be alert to what is possible."
Children rescued
A bus load of school children has been rescued from flash flooding in Brisbane.
A swift water rescue crew retrieved the 16 children after a bus became stranded in flash flooding at Acacia Ridge on the city's southside.
Water was rising in Learoyd Street around the bus but the students were pulled to safety within about an hour.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Andrew Sturgess says they had a lucky escape.
"Certainly a potentially dangerous situation," he said.
"It was just fortunate the water stopped rising at that time otherwise they would have been trapped.
"It's a message that we want to get out there - if it's flooded, forget it."
Brisbane's CBD has been spared most of the heavy falls but the weather bureau says a reprieve from the extreme weather is not expected until the end of the week.
Emergency crews have rescued a number of motorists from flooded roads, while dozens of traffic accidents have been reported.
A number of roads have been closed due to flash flooding in Brisbane's south-west, with landslips reported north-east of the city at Mount Mee.
The Brisbane City Council has opened four centres with sandbags for residents in low-lying areas.
At least one school on the Gold Coast hinterland has been closed because of flooding.
The Darling Downs and the Granite Belt have also been included on the list of regions to prepare for extreme weather.
A swift water rescue crew were called to save a person who was trapped in their car at Toowoomba.
Dam releases
Water is being released from Wivenhoe and North Pine dams in south-east Queensland as a precaution.
Earlier today Wivenhoe was at 88 per cent capacity and North Pine was at 95 per cent.
Seqwater spokesman Mike Foster said releases could be stepped up.
"That will really depend on the volume of the falls over the next couple of days," he said.
"As always with rainfall, it depends on where the rain falls and the intensity of the falls.
"There's a huge difference between 200 millimetres falling over 48 hours and 200 millimetres falling over two hours."
Meanwhile, the Sunshine Coast council has placed its local disaster management group on alert.
A flood warning has been issued for the Mary River between Moy Pocket and Gympie.
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