Over the weekend the Brisbane region saw 94mm of rain in 40 minutes hitting suburbs like Mansfield, East Brisbane, Morayfield and Camp Hill the hardest.

More storms are being forecast and South-East Queensland is on on high alert.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, ‘It’s a reminder that a large percentage of Brisbane is built on a floodplain.’

‘The thing about some of these areas is that they are very low-lying, and because of their level in terms of the ground level, the water is effectively at creek level.’

‘The only real solution to stop flooding in some of those areas would be for everyone to move out. There’s no drain that’s going to fix it, and we’re not going to ask people to move out of areas that have been established for 100 or 150 years, and so that’s the challenge,’ the Lord Mayor continued.

Hear more highlights from Peter Fegan below:

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