John Eagan wades through the living room, a week's worth of food floating around him and out into the yard.
"If he wasn't here last night, we would have drowned, I reckon," Alishea Walsh says, her voice rising sharply with every sentence.
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"I'm not even f---ing close to joking. We wouldn't have woken up."
John woke Alishea and his son, Braxton, about 5.30am after pouring over flood maps all night.
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"If we hadn't had that we would have woken up at 8 o'clock to the water in our mattress, bars on the window looking for keys," John says, complaining that a text message warning them to evacuate didn't come until quarter past seven.
There's a broken broom hidden under the water, a wet towel, half a Hills Hoist and who knows what else.
It's impossible to tell from photos and footage of the 40-metre-wide stretch of brown that's split the town's centre but the four now-flooded homes of Killinure Street usually back onto a dry patch of grass and a road.
Next door, the owners are gone but an old blue car sits flooded to its wheels.
Another house down, the garage is almost completely submerged, its contents spilled onto the street where they were dumped in a panic early Friday morning.
Neighbours, friends, family and strangers came to help.
A blue couch, a bird cage, chicken coop and two boats all hauled up out of harm's way.
The muddy water stopped 10 inches from Paul Drescher's elevated house but he faced a nervous wait as rumours swirled that Friday night's high tide would be even higher than this morning.
"We weren't really worried about it. Until now," he said, of the flood.
"We'll stay in the house, just take turns sleeping.
"If it gets too high or whatever we'll wake everybody up and get stuff out.
"It's just a big waiting game."
Fortunately, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Rick Threlfall said the "worst of it" was over for the Albert River spilling through Beenleigh's centre, although the Logan River was still rising.
John, Alishea and Braxton were staying with mates on Friday night, waiting for the water to go down and their real estate agent to reopen.
"(You) laugh and hope that tomorrow you can do something about it tomorrow," he said.
Across Logan, another 106 flooded residents were facing a similar prospect from the "unprecedented" floods, with more than 200 expected to join them over the weekend.
Across the south-east, ex-cyclone Debbie's flood victims numbered even higher, not to mention the damage the storm wrought in the state's north.