An Australian man and his dog from the Gold Coast have been swept to their deaths as Queensland’s flooding crisis moves south. The man, aged in his 50s, and his dog died when their car was swept away in torrential rain on Currumbin Creek Road about 3 a.m. on Monday. The vehicle had been driven 30 to 40 metres into floodwaters and couldn’t be located by emergency services. Surf lifesavers discovered the submerged vehicle just after 10.45 a.m. about 10 metres from the roadway. The man and his dog were still in the vehicle. It is the eighth fatality in southeast Queensland’s floods. It was a nervous night for the owners of the landmark Yatala Pie Shop, which sits a stone’s throw from the swollen Albert River. After the store was flooded in 2017, this time David Porter and his staff weren’t taking any chances. The pies were loaded into …