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Australian Army CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters from 5th Aviation Regiment are transporting emergency services personnel from Townsville to the Far North.
Everyone (and everything) has been getting in on the evacuation action at Holloways Beach.
Here's the exchange between Laura Boekel from the BOM, Minister Murray Watt and reporters at today's press conference.
Reporting by Meghan Dansie
This was taken in Smithfield, where traffic control crews were working to free a drain blocked by branches washed down in the flooding:
Traffic is snaking through the northern suburbs of Cairns with delays for several kilometres.
Premier Steven Miles is asked about Douglas Shire Mayor Michael Kerr's plea to the state and federal government for military support in the area.
"We are and will continue to do absolutely everything we can to support the Douglas Shire and their residents through the rest of recovering through this disaster event," he says.
Deputy Commissioner Shane Chelepy says emergency services were out doorknocking to warn people about the growing dangers because it was known that communication services would be affected, which may have limited people's access to warnings from the BOM, but things were changing and moving extremely quickly.
"I was speaking to the CEO of Wujal Wujal [Council] today ... that community has never seen water through Wujal Wujal like that, and the pace that water came through at," he says.
"They said the community did doorknock each other and they headed for high ground ... but we still had people trapped on roofs."
Laura Boekel is addressing some of the criticism levelled at the BOM over the last day or two, over whether it should have warned people earlier about the rainfall we've seen across the Far North.
"The weather situation evolved quite rapidly," she says.
"We did have a lot of lead time for that tropical cyclone and the flooding in the aftermath of that, however it was the rain rates that evolved very quickly over the weekend.
"We used the best science to make those predictions, and we had to change that warning strategy quite quickly into the weekend as we got more information that those rain rates were likely to be higher than initially predicted."
She's asked about limited information being posted to social media by official BOM channels over the weekend and whether that affected the rate at which people were able to access information.
"In terms of our warning strategy, we do always advise on our social media that the most up-to-date information is always on the website," she says.
"That's where all of our warnings and all of our forecasts will be published, and then we use social media to try and back up and emphasise those messages to get out to the community.
"Also noting that we have the Bureau of Meteorology app as well, that can know your location and also give you push notifications of warnings for the location you're currently physically in."
Murray Watt says he has "full confidence" in the BOM's prediction systems.
"The reality is that we were dealing with a highly unpredictable weather system ... meteorology is not a perfect science," he says.
"I can't think of another agency in the world I'd rather be relying on to make decisions."