A father and his young daughter have been rescued after spending two nights clinging to a tree in regional Queensland after floodwaters hit over the weekend. An RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew from Toowoomba airlifted the pair from a homestead in the Gympie region to hospital on Sunday after they were found at around 1 p.m. “The father explained to the crew that his car had been caught between two sections of floodwaters on Friday night and water began filling the car,” RACQ LifeFlight said in a statement late Sunday night. “He and his primary school-aged daughter climbed onto the roof of the vehicle but were swept into the water in the darkness.” They were washed into a tree, which they clung onto. On the first night, the father swam back to the submerged car and grabbed a rope, which he used to tie himself and his daughter to the …