Queensland weather: Gold Coast residents count the cost after floods damage homes, cars and businesses
Residents on the Gold Coast have spent the morning cleaning up after torrential rainflooded low-lying areas yesterday. 122 millimetres fell in the space of two hours at Oyster Creek, leaving homes, roads and businesses underwater at nearby Currumbin and Tallebudgera. Roads, homes and businesses were flooded yesterday in the southern Gold Coast. (Nine) Two cars owned by Currumbin Waters resident Steve have been written off after flood waters rose around them while he was trying to protect his house. "The water went three-quarters of the way up the wheel, both cars, and at that point I wasn't g...