Thousands left without power after 10,000 lightning strikes hit Brisbane as a vicious thunderstorm crashes through Queensland's south-east

 

• 4,500 homes in Brisbane were left without power due to severe storms
• 10,000 lightning strikes hit the Queensland capital from 2.00 pm Tuesday 
• Queensland was hit by another round of severe thunderstorms
• Residents in Brisbane were warned to seek cover just before 3pm
• The storm comes after hail and heavy rains seen on Monday 
• Immediate threats have subsided, however thunderstorms and hail persist

By Aneeta Bhole and Lucy Mae Beers and Martha Azzi For Daily Mail Australia and Aap

Published: 00:47 EST, 29 September 2015 | Updated: 13:44 EST, 29 September 2015

More than 4,500 homes in Brisbane have been left without power after a severe storm hit the Queensland capital just after 2.30 pm on Tuesday.

Properties were without power after 10,000 lightning strikes hit the city of Brisbane.

Flights at Brisbane Airport were also delayed in the chaos, while reports of road accidents were recorded in the Chermside, Greenslopes and Auchenflower area, reported 9news.

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More than 4,500 homes in Brisbane have been left without power after a severe storm hit the Queensland capital just after 2.30 pm on Tuesday

Severe weather warnings were cancelled by the Bureau of Meteorology at around 4.15pm who commented in a statement that: 'The immediate threat of severe thunderstorms has passed however thunderstorms are still occurring in the area with small hail possible.'

Brisbane residents were battered by both hail and torrential rains, as large thunderstorms hit south-east Queensland.

Dark clouds moved over the city just before 3 pm on Tuesday after the Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the region.

 

 

 

Flights at Brisbane Airport were also delayed in the chaos, while reports of road accidents were recorded in the Chermside, Greenslopes and Auchenflower area,

The warning followed the detection of two severe thunderstorm cells tracking eastward from near Esk and Kilcoy, respectively, earlier in the afternoon.

'It's still moving eastward, it's still around,' forecaster Kev Hutchins told AAP of the city-bound cell.

'It's a fairly large cell, too.'

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Apocalyptic Tennis Ball-Size Hail Batters Eastern Australia

EXTREME WEATHER:

Andre Heath

Part 1

   

Published on Nov 19, 2013

The CELESTIAL Convergence | http://thecelestialconvergence.blogsp...

November 19, 2013 - AUSTRALIA - Severe storms have caused damage as they sweep across south-east Queensland, with some areas hit by hail and gale-force winds.

The storm hit around 4:00pm (AEST), and the weather bureau says gusts of up to 139 kilometres per hour have been recorded at Coomera on the Gold Coast.

A man and a 15-year-old girl have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a tree fell and crushed a car at Upper Coomera.

Hail the size of golf balls pummelled Dreamworld at Coomera, sending patrons at the theme park scuttling for cover.

The State Emergency Service has received about 350 calls for help.

Gold Coast SES controller Jade Wollard says they are expecting a busy night.

"We'll be going through most of the night and we'll probably try and catch up again tomorrow, just depending on how many calls we actually get," he said.

A resident of the nearby suburb of Helensvale says it was an intense downpour.

"I'm looking at a white back yard, trees stripped bare bark everything," she said.

Hail also damaged parts of the Helensvale shopping centre.

Kim Richardson from Dreamworld says they are assessing the damage.

"I mean it was really quite intense, it was quite scary," she said.

Energex says about thousands of houses across Brisbane and surrounding areas lost power at the height of the storm.

Power has since been restored to most properties.

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EXTREME WEATHER: Apocalyptic Tennis Ball-Size Hail Batters Eastern Australia - Part 2!

Andre Heath


   

Published on Nov 19, 2013

The CELESTIAL Convergence | http://thecelestialconvergence.blogsp...

November 19, 2013 - AUSTRALIA - Severe storms have caused damage as they sweep across south-east Queensland, with some areas hit by hail and gale-force winds.

The storm hit around 4:00pm (AEST), and the weather bureau says gusts of up to 139 kilometres per hour have been recorded at Coomera on the Gold Coast.

A man and a 15-year-old girl have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a tree fell and crushed a car at Upper Coomera.

Hail the size of golf balls pummelled Dreamworld at Coomera, sending patrons at the theme park scuttling for cover.

The State Emergency Service has received about 350 calls for help.

Gold Coast SES controller Jade Wollard says they are expecting a busy night.

"We'll be going through most of the night and we'll probably try and catch up again tomorrow, just depending on how many calls we actually get," he said.

A resident of the nearby suburb of Helensvale says it was an intense downpour.

"I'm looking at a white back yard, trees stripped bare bark everything," she said.

Hail also damaged parts of the Helensvale shopping centre.

Kim Richardson from Dreamworld says they are assessing the damage.

"I mean it was really quite intense, it was quite scary," she said.

Energex says about thousands of houses across Brisbane and surrounding areas lost power at the height of the storm.

Power has since been restored to most properties..........

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Humanity's Apathy, Complacency and Insatiable Greed Has Broken the Ocean.

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Pacific-Ocean

Attribution: Brocken Inaglory  CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
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The ocean is broken

By GREG RAY

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it.
Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull.
And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris.
What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat.
The birds were missing because the fish were missing.
Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line.
"There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled.
But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two.
No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all.
"In years gone by I'd gotten used to all the birds and their noises," he said.
"They'd be following the boat, sometimes resting on the mast before taking off again. You'd see flocks of them wheeling over the surface of the sea in the distance, feeding on pilchards."
But in March and April this year, only silence and desolation surrounded his boat, Funnel Web, as it sped across the surface of a haunted ocean.
North of the equator, up above New Guinea, the ocean-racers saw a big fishing boat working a reef in the distance.
"All day it was there, trawling back and forth. It was a big ship, like a mother-ship," he said.
And all night it worked too, under bright floodlights. And in the morning Macfadyen was awoken by his crewman calling out, urgently, that the ship had launched a speedboat.
"Obviously I was worried. We were unarmed and pirates are a real worry in those waters. I thought, if these guys had weapons then we were in deep trouble."
But they weren't pirates, not in the conventional sense, at least. The speedboat came alongside and the Melanesian men aboard offered gifts of fruit and jars of jam and preserves.
"And they gave us five big sugar-bags full of fish," he said.
"They were good, big fish, of all kinds. Some were fresh, but others had obviously been in the sun for a while.
"We told them there was no way we could possibly use all those fish. There were just two of us, with no real place to store or keep them. They just shrugged and told us to tip them overboard. That's what they would have done with them anyway, they said.
"They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day's by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and night and stripped it of every living thing."
Macfadyen felt sick to his heart. That was one fishing boat among countless more working unseen beyond the horizon, many of them doing exactly the same thing.
No wonder the sea was dead. No wonder his baited lines caught nothing. There was nothing to catch.


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