<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Heavy rainfall in Far North Queensland has sparked rescues for motorists stranded in floodwaters.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Rescuers become life savers for the 65-year-old woman stuck on top of her car at Mossman, north-west of Cairns, about 6am today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An hour later at Redlynch in Cairns, two people in their fifties managed to escape to safety having been caught out by flash flooding after more than 200 millimetres of rain fell in just six hours.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/virgin-australia-flight-emergency-fire-melbourne/0596bd86-adb7-4a58-a2b6-0d0c663cc0b6"><strong><span>Vape fire on plane triggers emergency response at Melbourne Airport</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Wet season rain in Queensland is always challenging, it's even more challenging when it comes on top of big rainfall and swollen catchments already," Premier David Crisafulli said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hundreds of kilometres south in the Central West outback town of Longreach, it's been a week-long waiting game for a major flood that's now arrived in the community of just under 4000 people.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There's about five kilometres of an inland ocean out there coming off the Thomson River," Mayor Tony Rayner said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/floods-queensland-longreach-far-north/f8132533-cd1d-4924-bb85-48c54c919c66" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-hoppers-crossing-crash-teen-charged-over-fatal-allegedly-stolen-car-rollover/877063d4-f0c9-45dc-aff1-303dfda9bc8c"><strong><span>Teen charged after boy dies in allegedly stolen car rollover</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The river rose to 6.12 metres by 9am with the peak of 6.5 metres expected late today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Many residents including the owner of the Longreach Caravan Park weren't taking any chances, sandbagging and moving furniture to higher ground having gone under water in the February 2000 disaster.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Those inundated face power and water being cut off.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Landsborough Highway to Winton was cut off.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-iran-war-donald-trump-surprised-iran-targeted-middle-east-countries/49fdb66d-a0c0-4f84-882d-732eb6c2ef8f" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Trump 'surprised' Iran targeted other Middle East countries</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"A lot of food comes up and down that highway a lot of livestock so any closure has an impact," Rayner said</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But while the river's rise has been slow it's fall is expected to be relatively fast as it feeds down into Lake Eyre.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That means there's still water going through to Bedourie and to think a community impacted by really large rain over a fortnight ago are still waiting for floodwaters to reach its peak is equally incredibly frustrating," Crisafulli said.</span></div></div>