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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
The storm hit Brisbane.
My Mother-in-law has no power because of it. (Everton Park)
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That storm on Tuesday afternoon was crazy! I was home with my 7 year old and we watched in amazement at the bucketing rain, the chunks of hail (not round balls) about the size of a 5 cent piece bouncing off the trampoline and the swirling wind which made it seem like it was raining and hailing from every direction. I can only describe it like a mini cyclone.
My partner got caught up in it and was driving back from the Mt Ommaney shops. She had to pull over because it was buffeting the car around widly and there were trees and branches falling down hitting the power lines and causing sparks to fly everywhere. It caused similar destruction where we were, trees knocked over (including one which fell on a house over in Darra), debris strewn all over the place and apparently there was a couple of car accidents nearby as well which we heard emergency services respond to. Even the Channel 10 chopper came over to do a few close flybys so it was all happening here!
We were all OK but without power until about 10:30PM which made cooking on the portable camp stove by torch light fun!
Crazy weather.
A few bangs and a drop of rain and that's it
over Maleny at the moment.
but may get some rain
Every time it rains now I start freaking out! Although I must say these scorching days have probably helped dry things out a little, it just seems that even after the afternoon storm has passed it just keeps raining. Let's hope for the odd arvo storm and nothing more. This weather makes me a touch scared...
