The unique methods Australians are using to fend off rising floodwaters 

Aussies in flood-affected areas have found creative ways to combat the catastrophic weather. 

Footage from TikTok users brxcewxyne and charlilewisss – both from Queensland – shows friends and family ingeniously keeping floodwaters out of their properties.

One video sees two men using a tabletop to push an overflow of water down a walkway next to their home towards a yard. 

‘We used a tabletop to stop our house flooding,’ the caption in the clip reads.

One video sees two men using a tabletop to push an overflow of water down a walkway next to their home towards a yard 

‘Just another year in Australia,’ they wrote in the post. 

The other video has a family locked inside their house as the floods continue rising around their property.

A woman is filmed at the front door using a vacuum cleaner to suck up any excess water that has fallen through the cracks. 

Eight people have died and hundreds have been rescued from floodwaters in Queensland, which have damaged at least 19,000 homes and won’t fully recede for days. 

All of southeast Queensland is likely to be declared a ‘disaster emergency zone’, with deadly floods still peaking in some areas after parts of the region were hit by the most intense rainfall ever recorded.

There were blue skies over much of the region on Tuesday morning but major flooding is under way on the Brisbane, Logan, Bremer and Mary rivers, and Warrill Creek after the torrential downpours of the past week. 

A woman at the front door using a vacuum cleaner to suck up any excess water that has fallen through the cracks

Brisbane copped 795mm – the city’s wettest week since records began in 1840 – with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk saying much of the wider region is devastated.

‘We will get to the stage where basically the entire southeast will be declared a disaster emergency zone,’ she told Nine’s Today program on Tuesday.

‘At the moment they are doing council, one-by-one. Don’t forget Ipswich has been badly impacted as well, now Logan is experiencing it, they definitely will. 

Snr Sgt Howard said the past four days have been harrowing with at least 630 water rescues made and more than 10,000 calls for help responded to across the southeast. 

All of southeast Queensland is likely to be declared a ‘disaster emergency zone’, with deadly floods still peaking in some areas after parts of the region were hit by the most intense rainfall ever recorded. Pictured: A man fishing at a flooded Brisbane River

There were blue skies over much of the region on Tuesday morning but major flooding is under way on the Brisbane, Logan, Bremer and Mary rivers, and Warrill Creek after the torrential downpours of the past week

Snr Sgt Howard said the past four days have been harrowing with at least 630 water rescues made and more than 10,000 calls for help responded to across the southeast. Pictured: A woman using a kayak in Rocklea in Brisbane

In New South Wales, more severe weather is expected along the coast as people in parts of the north coast town of Ballina have been told it’s too late to leave. 

The State Emergency Service performed 932 flood rescues across the Northern Rivers region – which encompasses Ballina – in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning.

There are evacuation orders covering 34,000 people and another 310,000 across the state are on standby. 

The crisis has engulfed the northeastern part of the state, with multiple major flood warnings including the Tweed, Richmond, Wilsons, Brunswick, Bellinger and Clarence rivers.

The Bureau of Meteorology warned NSW is in for more thunderstorms, heavy rain and damaging winds as extreme weather moves south.

In New South Wales, more severe weather is expected along the coast as people in parts of the north coast town of Ballina have been told it’s too late to leave. Pictured: A submerged home in Woodburn