Up to 60,000 Gold Coast residents are still without power as crews work to fix 900 power lines that were torn down during severe storms that smashed Queensland's south-east on Christmas Day.
Clean-up efforts are underway but they have been hampered by major telecommunication outages across the northern end of the Gold Coast.
The State Emergency Service (SES) has confirmed crews from NSW are coming in to assist in the recovery effort.
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Financial assistance of $180 per person and $900 for families has been made available by the state government.
One resident told 9News she had never seen anything like the storms that tore through the region.
"Wonderful friends and family have pitched in. We will power through," she said.
Six people have died from the storms in the state.
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Three people were killed when a large boat with 11 people on board capsized on Boxing Day near Brisbane.
Eight people were rescued from the downed vessel just off Green Island at Moreton Bay but the bodies of three men aged 48, 69 and 59 were found in the water.
A 46-year-old woman was found dead at Mary River near Gympie yesterday after she and two others were swept away in a storm drain near Kidd Bridge at 3.20pm.
There was also the tragic death of a young girl named Mia, 9, who was found dead after she went missing during floods at Logan on Boxing Day.
A falling tree also killed a woman on the Gold Coast on Christmas Day.
But the torrential storms are expected to end. Temperatures of up to 46 degrees are predicted for parts of Queensland today, and 33 degrees for Gold Coast.
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