Queensland's heavy rain continues with flash flooding and Brisbane's peak hour traffic disrupted

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Torrential rain has caused flash flooding across South East Queensland, prompting one rescue, and causing traffic disruptions.

Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecaster Jonty Hall said the Eumundi and Yandina area on the Sunshine Coast recorded 90 millimetres of rain in an hour overnight on Thursday.

"It is a part of the world which is no stranger to heavy rainfall but even for there that was pretty heavy," he said.

A Noosa Council spokesperson said a combination of heavy rain and a burst water main had caused "further scouring of the road at Tingira Crescent Sunrise Beach".

Rain initially caused part of the road to collapse on January 19.

Council infrastructure services director Carl Billingham said on Friday much of the road had now collapsed, extending the repair period by several weeks.

Contractors had been working on installing gabion rock baskets to strengthen the bank.

Mr Billingham said the current weather had hampered repair efforts, but a full reconstruction of the road would be carried out when weather permits.

"The works that have been undertaken to date have been effective in protecting the adjacent block of apartments," he said.

Days of heavy rain

Over the past three days, the best totals have been around the southern Wide Bay and northern Sunshine Coast.

Tin Can Bay and Coops Corner recorded 395mm in the past three days while Eumundi has had 340mm.

Nearby, emergency services managed to rescue a woman from her car after she became trapped in flood waters on North Arm Yandina Creek Road around 9:30pm.

Police said there was about 60cm of water over the road.

Officers initially tried to walk to the woman but were forced to turn back by the rapidly rising water.

A State Emergency Service truck was eventually able to reach her car and pull it out.

Over the past 24 hours the State Emergency Service has received 288 requests for assistance across Queensland, including more than 100 in Brisbane.

The biggest falls in Brisbane over the last 24 hours were in the northern suburbs — Strathpine has had 157mm since 9:00am yesterday.

There is water on Gympie Road on Brisbane's north at Carseldine, with warnings for drivers to proceed with caution.

Meanwhile, a burst sewer main on the Centenary Highway at Jindalee closed all northbound lanes this morning, cutting off one of the major routes for commuters heading into the city from Brisbane's west.

The road was blocked for hours but one lane has since re-opened.

Seqwater, which manages South East Queensland's water grid, said overall supply levels had increased by 0.5 per cent since 8.00am on Thursday.

The agency said rainfall totals were varied, ranging from 120mm for the Maroochy River Dams through to 25mm for Wivenhoe Dam catchments.

Levels at Wivenhoe Dam, the main water supply for Brisbane, remained steady at 42.5 per cent.

Since the end of last month, the amount of water in the dam had only increased by 341 megalitres.

Seqwater said it expected minor inflows throughout several catchments over the day, which could contribute up to an additional 1 per cent to the storage of the combined water grid.

The rain is expected to ease in the region for the remainder of today and early tomorrow.

"We have another system coming in hot on the heels of this one over the Darling Downs area during tomorrow," Mr Hall said.

"So there's potential for heavy falls on the Darling Downs tomorrow and that spreads eastwards to the coast on Sunday and Monday.

"So we will see the return of more widespread heavy totals on Sunday and Monday."

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