Wendy and Ross Lander out front of their flooded home in Lismore, northern NSW. Picture: Natalie Grono.

The death toll ftrom ex-cyclone Debbie now stands at four, and is expected to rise.

The body of a 45-year-old man was located at a caravan park at Tweed Valley Way, South Murwillumbah in New South Wales just after 1.30pm on Saturday.

Police are investigating the man’s death and will prepare a report of the coroner.

Police confirmed Nelson Raebel, 77, from Eagleby, had also been found deceased.

He was found by emergency crews at 3.50pm on Saturday not far from where he was last seen near Eagleby Road, south of Brisbane.

Police continue to search for David Heidemann, 50, who was last seen around 8pm Thursday (local time) leaving an address in Mondure, northwest of the Gold Coast.

He told family he was meeting a friend on nearby Campbells Road, theCourier Mailreported.

Lismore underwater. Picture: Nigel HallettSource:News Corp Australia

He was reported missing after failing to meet his friend and failing to return home.

“Police hold grave concerns for David as parts of Campbells Road are currently subjected to flooding,” police said.

Another man, in his 60s, has been missing since Wednesday after he went bushwalking at Lamington National Park.

Landslides have made it difficult for police who have had to bring in bobcats to clear roads before search on foot.

Police are yet to release details of a third missing person.

COUPLE WED COME HELL OR HIGH WATER

A couple who planned their wedding at a Kingscliff resort in New South Wales have told of how they had to fly by helicopter over floodwaters and “hitch-hike” to make their ceremony.

Newlyweds Carissa and Tyson Kolkka told Seven News of how their wedding plans fell apart. The couple, who were successfully married on the day, said their wedding party resorted to foraging the foreshore for flower arrangements and ended up getting a lift by a kind police officer who navigated them through floodwaters.

“If we can overcome this, we can overcome anything... I hope,” Karissa told Seven.

‘UNREAL DAMAGE’

With the roads disrupted, Logan local Diane Bullpitt decided to use a different mode of transport - a neighbour’s tinny - after her property was inundated. While her house was spared major damage from the turgid floodwaters, she said she needed to leave by boat to attend a function.

“It’s been so unpredictable. There’s been areas that have gone under that never went under before,” she told AAP.

“It’s come up really, really quick.” But she said the water would still have to come up “a long way” before hitting any houses.

As for her own, she hoped to make it back by Monday.

Flooding in Logan. Picture: Jono Searle.Source:News Corp Australia

Ashleigh McGrogan and her husband Adam only moved into their three-bedroom house in December but will have to replace all the flooring and skirting boards after the nearby creek’s muddy overflow swamped everything except a strip of their verdant backyard.

Before buying the three-bedroom house they were told there was only a one per cent chance it would flood.

“It’s unreal,” she told AAP.

“Let’s just clean it up and pretend it was a bad dream.”

Sam Wise begins the clean up her property as floodwaters recedes in Lismore, New South Wales. Picture: AAPSource:AAP

VICTIMS OF DEBBIE

On Friday, the body of a 64-year-old woman was found submerged in four metres of water on Friday afternoon, the day after her car was swept off a causeway at Gungal in the Hunter Valley.

The discovery came after the body of another woman was found on a property south of Murwillumbah.

People in Lismore get around in a canoe in the CBD. Picture: Nathan Edwards.Source:News Corp Australia

Water has started to recede in Lismore but it could be days before residents can access their homes to assess the damage. Picture: Nathan Edwards.Source:News Corp Australia

About 220 people spent Friday night sleeping at Lismore Southern Cross University campus’ evacuation centre.

While the water is receding in Lismore, it could be days before residents are able to access the damage.

Murwillumbah has suffered significant damage and the repair bill is expected to run into the millions.

The streets of Lismore including the CBD have been inundated with floodwater after the Wilson River overtopped the flood levee. Picture: Nathan Edwards.Source:News Corp Australia

Tweed Shire Council general manager Troy Green said water mains had been destroyed, along with waste-treatment plants.

Ballina, Byron, Kyogle, Lismore, Richmond Valley and Tweed local government areas have been declared natural disaster zones.

The centre of Lismore remains underwater after the levee was breached in Lismore, NSW.Source:AAP

Water is starting to recede in Lismore but it will take time.Source:AAP

The roof of a house sticks out of floodwater in Lismore, NSW.Source:AAP

It could be days before Lismore residents are able to access the damage to their homes.Source:Getty Images

Nearly 220 people in Lismore spent the night at the Southern Cross University campus’ evacuation centre.Source:Getty Images

The Aboriginal community on Cabbage Tree Island was evacuated, deputy acting commissioner Mark Morrow said.

A major flood warning is in place for both the Richmond and Wilsons rivers. Of the rescues carried out overnight, most involved people stranded on cars and building roofs.

Mr Morrow said many of those rescued were told to evacuate but had decided to stay.

Vehicles underwater at Murwillumbah. Picture: Nigel Hallett.Source:News Corp Australia

Light plane staying afloat in floodwaters at Murwillumbah. Picture: Nigel Hallett.Source:News Corp Australia

Emergency services inspect a house in Lismore, NSW. Picture: Nigel Hallett.Source:News Corp Australia

“There’s a lesson here for people in the downstream areas that are yet to get this flood,” he said.

“Don’t do what they did. Make a decision about what you need. Pack early and leave.”

Since Wednesday, SES volunteers have rescued more than 400 people and responded to more than 2220 calls for assistance.

Further north of Lismore, residents in Billinudgel, Ocean Shores and New Brighton were also told to leave.

An aerial photograph of floodwaters engulfing residential housing in central Lismore, NSW.Source:AAP

Water rushed over Lismore’s levee walls and came within a metre of the 1974 record of 12.2m on Friday afternoon.Source:AAP

Flatmates Millie (left) and Margarate sit on their second floor balcony surrounded by flood waters in central Lismore, NSW.Source:AAP

The Pacific Highway has been cut off by water at Chinderah south of Tweed Heads. Large parts of Lismore remained under water overnight.

Flood warnings are current for the town and its surroundings as well as Chinderah and Murwillumbah.

Residents watch the flood waters in Lismore, NSW. Picture: Tracey Nearmy.Source:AAP

Residents in northern NSW are being warned to be on alert as floodwaters rise. Picture: Tracey Nearmy.Source:AAP

Flood levels in Lismore and Murwillumbah have already broken the records set in 2005 and 2001, respectively.

The Wilsons River at Lismore peaked at 11.6m on Friday, which was the highest flood peak since 1974.

But there was some good news, with the SES saying “no significant” rainfall had been recorded around Lismore since early on Friday.

Moderate flooding was still occurring along the Richmond River at Woodburn. However, that could change with the river expected to peak at 4.2m today and spark a major flood event for the Woodburn community.

SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND

Meanwhile, emergency teams worked to rescue three women and two babies as parts of Logan braced for a fresh wave of flooding.

The Queensland Fire and Emergency Services said they were working with the swift water rescue team to bring the five in Waterford West to safety, the Courier Mail reports.

More than 300 properties, including more than 200 houses, were at risk of being swamped by “unprecedented” floodwaters in southeast Queensland.

The area’s much-loved Yatala Pie Shop fell victim to rising waters, while the new $15 million John Muntz Bridge was ripped apart by the raging Coomera River.

Low-lying areas of the Brisbane metropolitan area of Logan is expected to be among the worst affected as the Albert and Logan Rivers swell to never-before-seen levels.

The Logan River is expected to peak at about 10.5-metres at Waterford West around 2pm (local time) today, in what mayor Luke Smith said will be the biggest flood in the area in more than 40 years.

“That’s higher than we saw in 2013 and 2011 and it’s getting very very close to that 1974 mark,” he told ABC Radio.

Elsewhere in the city the clean-up operation is underway, following record flooding in the Albert River at Beenleigh on Friday.

Flood-hit Scenic Rim residents are being urged to only use their tap water for drinking after all the water treatment plants were knocked out in the region.

More than 22,000 homes remain without power across southeast Queensland, two days after the remnants of ex-cyclone Debbie tore through the region, bringing down about 700 power lines.

The Little Nerang Dam in the Gold Coast hinterland, which is part of south east Queensland’s drinking water supply. Picture: Nigel Hallett.Source:News Corp Australia

The central Queensland city of Rockhampton has been told to prepare for what could be its biggest flood in more than 60 years.

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned the Fitzroy River could reach 9.4 metres at Rockhampton on Wednesday, which would equal the level of the city’s 1954 floods.

It is expected homes in the Depot Hill area and low-lying parts of Berserker, Allenstown and Kawana will be inundated when the Fitzroy reaches the major flood level of 8.5 metres on Monday afternoon.

The city’s airport will also be closed when the river level hits 8.7 metres, according to the local council.

Major flooding has already been recorded in the Mackenzie, Connors and Isaac rivers that flow into the Fitzroy following heavy rainfall from ex-cyclone Debbie.

Minor flooding has also occurred upstream in the Fitzroy, and major flooding is expected in the Yaamba area, north of Rockhampton, on Monday.

Medical and emergency services staff unload supplies from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from 5th Aviation Regiment to support residents in Proserpine in Queensland affected by Cyclone Debbie. Picture: Australian Department of Defence/Sgt Murray.Source:AFP

The bridge over Logan River Parklands in Beenleigh, Queensland, became a tourist destination as people came to see the flooded Logan River from Cyclone Debbie. Picture: Richard Walker.Source:News Corp Australia

PREMIER TO VISIT DEBBIE-HIT NORTH

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will travel to north Queensland to see the destruction wrought by Cyclone Debbie, after wild weather caused widespread damage across the state.

On Saturday, she chaired a disaster management meeting in Brisbane before heading to the Mackay and Whitsunday region, which was severely battered by the storm.

The restoration of electricity is of particular concern, with 50,000 properties in the Bowen, Mackay and Whitsunday regions still without electricity days after Debbie crossed the coast.

A group of men stranded on a roof at Eagleby near Beenleigh in Queensland. Picture: Nigel Hallett.Source:News Corp Australia

A vehicle passes through the flooded Boundary street in Beenleigh south of Brisbane, Queensland.Source:AAP

A man takes photos of a business damaged by flooded water near Nyholt Drive, Yalta, Queensland.Source:AAP

It is slowly being restored to petrol stations and other essential services at Airlie Beach, after generators were brought in on trucks on Friday.

The Mackay district’s sugar crops have also been hit hard by the cyclone’s wrath, with industry figures estimating $150 million damage had been done to local canegrowers’ operations in the area.

Originally published as Fourth victim claimed by flooding