A lightning present struck properties on Wednesday and a whole lot of individuals nonetheless stay with out energy.
Lighting sizzled throughout south-east skies as residents reminiscent of Deon Bird watched on.
“There was this massive big crack down through the bush and it lit up the whole bushland there it was crazy,” Bird mentioned.
“I’ve been in Redcliffe about 16 years and that’s probably the craziest lightning storm we’ve had here, it was full on.”
One of the largest strikes was filmed from a balcony in Redcliffe.
An area household imagine their townhouse was on the receiving finish.
“There was this mighty bang and flash which cut the power,” native Luke Van Santen mentioned.
“It blew up the TV, so there was smoke coming out of the TV at the same time.”
Across the wild night time of climate there have been 200,000 lightning strikes that brought on 16,000 energy outages.
Up to 120 millimetres of rain fell in some areas and about 60 individuals known as for assist.
Clean-up crews had a giant job as they cleared timber from blocked roads.
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The wild climate situations introduced a sticky day to an finish.
“At the moment we’ve got humid air over much of the state including south-east Queensland so there’s a lot of instability in the air,” the Bureau of Meteorology’s Steven Hadley mentioned.
Now, residents are being warned the wild climate is probably not over but.
“We could see some more thunderstorm activity through the south east this afternoon and evening, possibly some severe thunderstorm activity as well,” Hadley mentioned.
Storms are predicted to ease to showers from Friday by means of to subsequent week.
