The Australian State of Queensland is on alert for flooding following cyclone tropical Oswald.
Hundreds of people were evacuated in the rain continues to fall on Sunday, with the towns of Bundaberg and Gladstone is the possibility of severe flooding.
The bad weather is expected to move towards the capital of the State, Brisbane and the State of New South Wales.
Two years ago, floods in Queensland, caused the death of 35 people.
On Sunday, Australian media reported that authorities had pulled the body of an old man of water at Burnett Heads northeast of Bundaberg.
Two other people were reported missing, including a man who disappeared after trying to cross a Creek at Gympie, North of Brisbane.
Six tornadoes have already hit the Bundaberg region, ripping off roofs and injuring 17 people.
BBC-Nick Bryant of Sydney River in Bundaberg is already beyond flood levels were recorded in 2010, reports and meteorologists are concerned that it could reach one meter, reaching levels not seen in the 1970s.
The Commission expects some 300 homes and businesses to be flooded.
At Gladstone in the North, 400 properties have already been evacuated.
Sandbags are also distributed in the State capital, Brisbane, where the berries regions are particularly vulnerable to the tsunami.
Severe weather warnings are in place of Central Queensland to southern New South Wales border.
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