Gympie's expected flood peak has been revised up to 19 metres, placing extra businesses at risk. Source: AAP
GYMPIE'S expected flood peak has been revised up by a metre, placing extra businesses and several homes in the southeast Queensland town at risk.
The forecast level of 19 metres is one metre lower than the level reached almost exactly a month ago when more than 100 premises went under.
Mayor Ron Dyne says the adjustment makes a big difference.
"At 18 metres we were looking at around about 34 businesses. We're probably now going to have to go up to around 40 or 45, and probably three to four houses at this stage," Mr Dyne told AAP.
"We began at 12 metres when we started on this latest journey, then it became 16 metres, then 18, so I just hope 19 metres is the last so we can get on with life."
Mr Dyne said after the second flood in a month, townsfolk are a bit water shy.
"They're a resilient crowd but they're jack of it. The retail side of things aren't flash anyway; then you get four floods in one year and two in a month and some businesses have had to empty their shops every time."
Panel beater Noel Edmonds moved back into his River Road workshop just two weeks ago after it was swamped by two metres of water last month.
Now he is evacuating again.
"It's catastrophic. We've just had enough," he told AAP, saying he couldn't afford to move the business.
Weather bureau hydrologist Jess Carey says once the Mary River peaks, it should drop back to normal pretty quickly.
"By late Thursday it should be almost back to normal," he told AAP.
Forecaster Geoff Doueal says the rain should start easing on Wednesday, although some falls up to 100mm are possible between Gladstone and Bowen.
"As far as the rain goes, you'd have to think the worst is over for Gympie. There'll be an easing trend over the next couple of days," he said.
The threat to Bundaberg has also passed, Mr Doueal said.
"We think Bundaberg will have some scattered showers, with about 10mm tomorrow."
A woman who got lost in flooded bushland north of Brisbane for 16 hours was found on Tuesday morning.
The 49-year-old, who had been grocery shopping, was stopped by floodwaters not far from her home near Pomona on Monday afternoon.
She tried to walk home along a bush track with her shopping bags but became lost in the leech-infested scrub.
Search and rescue teams caught up with her just a few kilometres from her home.
A 77-year-old man drowned on Monday afternoon after being swept from his car in floodwaters near Kilcoy, northeast of Brisbane.
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