Gold Coast family watch their home float away in surge from the flooded Albert River

SHOCKING footage has emerged of the moment a woman and her two children watched their home float away in surging floodwaters on the Gold Coast.

SHOCKING footage has emerged of the moment a woman and her two children watched their home float away in surging floodwaters on the northern Gold Coast.

The footage was taken moments after three State Emergency Services officers saved the woman and her children from the roof of their Luscombe home in the city’s north on Friday morning.

A house swept away by flood waters minutes after the @QldSES rescue a family of four from the roof @ABCNewsBrisbane pic.twitter.com/ifcffsZyDo

— Jessica van Vonderen (@jessvanvonderen) April 2, 2017

An elderly man, believed to be the woman’s father, was also rescued from the second storey of the home before the family were taken by boat to a patch of dry land about 50m away where the heartbreaking video footage was taken.

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Swept up in the swell from the swollen Albert River, the house can be seen floating away from its foundations, flattening trees in its path.

House floats away at hinterland. Picture: ABC

The house took trees out as it floated down the swollen river. Source: ABC News

Neighbours directed a crew of three SES personnel — Chris Holloway, Claire Browning, and disaster management officer Jim Ferguson — to their aid.

“I climbed over the balcony hands and knees along the awning, stood up and made my first real contact with the parent and the two kids,” they told ABC News

The trio were helped into the boat, along with another man and two dogs who were inside the home.

Fifteen minutes later, the house was swept away.

Debris from the house extended for hundreds of metres down the rural street.

The family were uninjured and the SES said they stayed with friends nearby while they rebuild their lives.

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