Emergency alerts are in place for the Gold Coast, Laidley and parts of Logan

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Gold Coast residents are being urged to stay updated with emergency alerts after heavy rain triggered flash flooding across the city. Mackenzie Colahan reports.

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00:00The Gold Coast beaches have copped an absolute battering over the last few days.

00:06You can see here the swell has eased, but that hasn't stopped all this erosion which

00:10is going to take months and months to recover.

00:13The main threat now here on the Gold Coast is this flooding rain.

00:16It's still coming down very heavily.

00:18Some parts of the city have received as much as a quarter of a metre in the last 24 hours

00:23and that has prompted a number of emergency alerts to be issued.

00:26A major flood warning for the Albert River at Beanley went out at 10.30 last night, which

00:30includes the northern Gold Coast suburbs of Luscombe, Yatla, Stapleton, Alberton and Gilberton

00:36and the Logan suburbs of Tambourine, Cedar Creek, Wolfdean, Bannockburn, Windaroo, Mount

00:42Warren Park, Beanley and Eagleby.

00:44Those residents have been told it is too dangerous to leave, they should get up high and stay

00:49where they are.

00:50Earlier last night a warning was issued for Corumbin, Corumbin Valley, Talabudgera, Talabudgera

00:55Valley in Illinois, flood prone areas on the southern Gold Coast and flooding on the

01:00Narang River saw a Watch and Act alert issued for Carrara, Benoa, Emerald Lakes, Clear Island

01:05Waters, Mermaid Waters and Merrimack.

01:08There were a couple of people who had to be rescued from their cars last night and authorities

01:11are reminding everyone not to drive through flood waters.

01:14I have done the rounds this morning and it seems like so far we appear to have dodged

01:18a bullet.

01:19Our major rivers and creeks on the Gold Coast here are tidal low and the big concern was

01:23this morning's high tide at 5am.

01:26From what I have been told the flood waters on the Gold Coast's central and southern suburbs

01:29peaked last night and have been receding but there is a lot of water coming downstream

01:34from the hinterland too.

01:36That means the situation can change very quickly with more heavy rain expected today which

01:41could lead to life threatening flooding.

01:43The Bureau says the rain threat should be easing from this afternoon so we're not out

01:47of the woods just yet.

01:48Everyone should continue to monitor the situation very closely for the next 24 hours.

01:53For more information visit www.fema.gov

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