More than 1400 Hervey Bay homes could be without power for days after the city was hit with a wall of water on Sunday that inundated 1600 properties and left countless residents stranded and displaced.

Witnesses say it was heartbreaking to see elderly people pulled from their homes as floodwater lapped at their doorstep on Sunday.

Devastated home and business owners are dealing with the aftermath of the worst flooding to hit Hervey Bay in decades.

As a sudden rain bomb smashed through Hervey Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning, many residents were left wondering what had happened – and why they didn’t have more notice of what was to come.

Confronting scenes emerged from Hervey Bay, where residents were trapped in their homes and motorists had to be pulled from cars after a near-stationary storm lashed the town, causing flash flooding.Queensland Police issued an emergency declaration for Hervey Bay,

The landfall of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred has brought powerful winds to Brisbane, with flooding and power outages impacting hundreds of thousands of properties across south-eastern Queensland and northern NSW.

Here is a list of matters listed at Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Today's court listings are published as part of News Corporation's commitment to public interest journalism and are compiled from information made publicly available by the courts in each State and territory.

Prisoners at Maryborough Correctional Centre have been kept bust filling sandbags ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Albert in case of flooding.

Hervey Bay has been smashed by a rain bomb with flash flooding cutting dozens of roads and threatening homes while a woman is trapped in her car in rising waters near the airport.