About 40 mines in Queensland have been affected by flooding and several have said they cannot meet their contracts, local media reported today.
The Blackwater coal rail system is inundated, cutting off the major supply line to the port of Gladstone in central Queensland, the fourth-largest coal export terminal in the world.
"We are not getting any coal from the Blackwater line, so we are not receiving any coal at the moment," a spokeswoman for the port said today. "We can't ship coal out."
The terminal normally exports 1.3 million tonnes of coal a week.
Meanwhile, the death toll has now been put at 10 with a latest recovery of a body near Aramac in Central Queensland. Divers found the body yesterday afternoon in Cornish Creek.
Police believe it's the body of a 62-year-old man from Ballarat in Victoria who was reported missing after the vehicle he was travelling in was swept off a causeway on Torrens Creek Rd, about 67km north of Aramac, on Sunday night.
Two other men in the car, aged 19 and 40, escaped the flood waters.
Flash flooding has also affected streets around the wider Brisbane area, with heavy rain occurring in city areas and the south east. At 1pm (local time) water at Long Street in Graceville, south of Brisbane was reported to be waist deep.
Floodwater has affected several areas in south and north Brisbane.
Spokesman for the Bureau of Meteorology said heavy rain was moving to Brisbane's north and that heavy rain should ease in the southeast later in the afternoon.
Brisbane Police are on high alert as heavy rain causes flash flooding and landslides across the region following last night's storm in Brisbane and the southeast.
Last night's storm caused havoc in inner Brisbane suburbs and knocked out powerlines in the suburb of Lockyer Valley. About 80mm was reported in Wynnum.
About 50 cars were flooded in inner-suburbs as the deluge triggered flash flooding with at least eight roads either closed or affected. The Gold and Sunshine coasts can were also expecting rain today with associated storms and localised thunder.