Residents of Venus Bay and Tarwin Lower in Victoria's east have had their major access road cut by floodwaters.
Inverloch-Venus Bay Road, which connects the small towns to Inverloch, has been closed since flooding began on Tuesday
Venus Bay resident and South Gippsland Shire councillor Sarah Gilligan told Melissa Fistric on ABC Gippsland radio that residents were still in a watch and wait situation.
"Our danger point is when there's a lot of water coming down from the Strzelecki [Ranges] and coming down the Tarwin River if it's meeting high tide ... that's when it'll push over the banks," Ms Gilligan said.
Walkerville Road is the only way in or out of the towns.
"[Walkerville Road] had some water encroaching across it a couple of days ago, and I'm hoping that with the renewed rain that it's going to remain open," she said.
Ms Gilligan said landslips and potholes were forming due to the poor weather.
“There are a lot of new big craters in the roads; I wouldn't even call them potholes,” she said.
The councillor reminded residents not to attempt to drive through floodwaters, particularly when emergency services were already stretched.
"I just really encourage everybody to rethink your plans, lower your expectations and don't drive if you can avoid it,” she said.
Struggling to get supplies
Tarwin Lower IGA manager Luke Keily told ABC Breakfast radio it had been challenging trying to get deliveries in with the current road conditions.
"A lot of our distributors from Melbourne are not very interested in coming out here so a lot of them have been dropping off their stuff Inverloch and Meeniyan," Mr Keily said.
The manager has been driving to nearby towns to collect supplies for the store.
"What was it 20-minute trip [to Inverloch] is now about an hour and just shy of an hour and 10 minutes," he said.
"We are getting low of a few things I know milk we're getting pretty low of so I'm hoping to get that tomorrow but we're still all right,” Mr Keily said.
More wet weather on the way
Meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology Phoebe de Wilt said rain would increase throughout the day today.
While the rain was expected to ease off by tomorrow morning, there are more cold fronts expected as early as Monday.
"So with the already saturated catchments that we've got, we can expect to see renewed river rises over the next week," she said.
There will also still be some scattered showers on Saturday, Ms de Wilt said.
"We are expecting [Monday will] be quite windy ... So just urging people to keep up to date with the warnings and any advice from local emergency services," she said.
