00:00School holiday boredom? Just add water.
00:05We like to come down here and get wet.
00:09The northern wet season has well and truly arrived.
00:13This amount of rainfall is really unusual, even in North Queensland.
00:17Townsville copped the brunt of today's drenching.
00:20One gauge recording almost 200 millimetres in three hours.
00:25The North Queensland deluge has surprised long-time locals.
00:29We get plenty of rain around, but there's a fair bit the last couple of days, this time of the year.
00:34Closing roads along the coast, including the Bruce Highway.
00:38We're used to having 74 islands here on the Whitsundays, but I think we've got a few more today.
00:43Flooding has disrupted holiday plans.
00:47The road was cut up to Prosperpine and we just turned around to come back to the Cowan pub to sit it out and wait.
00:55Still, some are skirting the warnings, driving through floodwaters again and again.
01:02It's just not worth the risk to yourself or your family's life, particularly at this time of year.
01:08There are other dangers to watch out for too.
01:11The Weather Bureau says there's a low chance of a tropical cyclone developing as the system moves offshore.
01:19As for the Christmas week forecast...
01:22It looks as though we're scaling back to seasonal showers and storms across most of North Queensland.
01:27But it won't dampen the festive cheer.
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