The driver of this van escaped serious injury after driving through flood water on Old Gympie Road just north of Pikes Road Beerwah.

Jason Dougherty

View flood disaster photos from the area here.

YESTERDAY'S deluge was backed up with 230mm of rain overnight between Maroochydore and Caloundra forcing police to close parts of the Nicklin Way.

Golden Beach also experienced significant flooding but water there and along the Nicklin Way receded by early this morning and police have opened the road.

SES crews in the Caloundra area responded to more than 50 calls for help with water running into about 20 homes.

The worst hit was Pumicestone Place at Golden Beach with almost every home in the street needing assistance from the SES.

Caloundra Private Hospital also suffered some roof damage.

The weather seems to have cleared for the moment with the Bruce Highway reopened after being cut near Caboolture but a flood warning is still current for the Coast and south-east Queensland.

The latest advice from the Bureau of Meteorology states flooding on the Coast is still a problem.

"Moderate to major flooding continues in the Mooloolah River but flood levels have eased in the Maroochy River and tributaries," the bureau said.

State schools are open and parents are being told to contact independent schools if they have any concerns.

Sunshine Coast Grammar School has advised it is open.

Dangerous surf conditions are expected today.

View flood photos from south-east Queensland.

For more images of floods around the Sunshine Coast, check out The Sunshine Coast Daily's photo gallery from Wednesday, May 20, and a second flood gallery from Thursday, May 21.

Sunshine after the rain

More than 300mm of rain has been dumped on some parts of the Coast in just over a day, causing flash flooding, landslips, road closures and rescues.

But the heavy rains were followed by sunshine in the afternoon as the huge storm cell moved south.

One lane of Peachester Road was closed to motorists after a landslip caused a large chunk of road to crumbling away during the heavy downpour.

Energex crews struggled to gain access to flood- affected areas in the Sunshine Coast hinterland after about 1000 customers lost power overnight.

Beerburrum had its wettest 24-hour period in 17 years, with 302mm in the 24 hours leading up to 9am yesterday.

In just 12 hours, about 150mm fell between Maroochydore and Redcliffe.

Motorists heading for Caboolture were stranded when flooding caused the closure of southbound lanes on the Bruce Highway.

SES crews were kept busy through the night and yesterday morning, sandbagging homes and tending to minor damage in homes, mostly in the Glasshouse Mountains and Caloundra regions.

Firefighters attended several incidents in Glasshouse Mountains, Peachester and Beerwah from midnight onwards as people tried in vain to cross rising floodwaters.

Council erected signs declaring Old Gympie Road off limits to drivers, after reports of a car washing from the road into a tree at 7am.

Weatherzone meteorologist Sam Terry said the low-pressure system was moving south, leaving Brisbane and the Gold Coast open to more torrential rain.

Mr Terry said the Coast could expect about 30 to 50mm to fall today.

“The focus of the falls will be far south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales,” Mr Terry said.

“There may be a burst of showers Thursday morning, but Friday looks like it's going to be easing.”

Caloundra SES local controller Jim Case said crews mainly sandbagged homes and inspected minor damage as the rain threatened homes in Caloundra and Glasshouse Mountains.

Mr Case said the damage was not as bad as anticipated, given the amount of rain that fell.

“I measured the rainfall at 8am this morning and we had 161mm in 24 hours at Shelly Beach,” he said.

“There was a lot of localised flooding but given the amount of rain we had, we had fewer problems than we thought we would.”

SES Glasshouse Mountains group leader Graeme Cheal said most of the water subsided quickly once the weather started to clear.

Mr Cheal said one home had part of its roof ripped off about 4.30am.

“There were extremely strong gusts of wind for a period of about 10 to 15 minutes,” he said.

“We had about 185mm of heavy rain from midday to midday.”

After facing two floods in less than two weeks earlier this year, Noosa's hinterland areas escaped the wrath of the latest rain, with only a few callouts to assist with sandbagging.

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned of flash flooding for the rest of the week.

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THE FIGURES

Rainfall for 32 hours to 5pm

Golden Beach … 253mm

Beerwah … 246mm

Caloundra …204mm

Landsborough …190mm

Palmwoods …136mm

Maroochydore …129mm

Maleny …126mm

Noosa …121mm

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