Southeast Queensland is on flood watch with dangerous thunderstorms looming that could trigger "life-threatening floods" just days after the region's worst deluge in a decade.
Large parts of the region remain underwater and residents have barely started to clean up after floods which killed nine people and damaged more than 17,000 homes and businesses.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is warning the next 48 hours will bring with it storms that are "dangerous and potentially life-threatening", further exacerbating the situation of already saturated catchments across the state's southeast.
Jazmin Chartres is in the process of cleaning up her flood damaged property in the suburb of Auchenflower in Brisbane. Source: AAP / AAP
She said there would be increased risks of floods and flash floods across the southeast for the next 48 hours.
"This is a very dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation for southeast Queensland," Ms Boekel told reporters on Thursday.
Ms Boekel said the main concern for Brisbane wasn't the Lockyer and Bremer rivers, but the Laidley and Warrill creeks where there is potential for more flash flooding.
"They cannot take any more rainfall, they are what we call saturated," she said.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said with unstable weather forecast for the next 48 hours across the entire southeast, all schools will be closed for regular students on Friday.
"These are unprecedented times," she told reporters on Thursday. "It is extremely unstable weather conditions."
Only individual schools that can safely open will be allowed to do so, and only for the children of essential workers.
Ms Palaszczuk also called on people who can work from home to do so on Friday.
