{"id":960497,"date":"2026-11-11T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/960497\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:06:13","slug":"more-than-80000-homes-without-power-cars-crushed-as-storms-leave-trail-of-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/960497\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 80,000 homes without power, cars crushed as storms leave trail of destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 81,000 households across south-east Queensland were left without power on Wednesday night when “very dangerous” storms and destructive winds swept across the region.<\/p>\n

Almost 60,000 of the outages occurred in the Logan area, which bore the brunt of the wild weather.<\/p>\n

Energex said there are more than 400 fallen powerlines reported around the south-east, with more expected.<\/p>\n

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A tree fell on a car on Chambers Flat Road at Munruben.\u00a0 (Supplied: Harvey’s Towing)<\/p>\n

Power was also cut in the Scenic Rim, the Moreton Bay Region and the Brisbane and Gympie council areas.<\/p>\n

Energex spokesperson Justin Coomber said initial reports showed “extensive damage” to the network and that some customers were not expected to have power restored until “well into tomorrow”.<\/p>\n

“We’re hearing reports from crews that there are cement poles that have been smashed \u2026 and that shows the ferocity of those winds.”<\/p>\n

Mr Coomber said about 120,000 lightning strikes were recorded.<\/p>\n

“Obviously some of those lightning strikes unfortunately hit our equipment and have caused lots of damage as well,” he said.<\/p>\n

The SES had 300 tasks in Logan on Wednesday night, responding to people trapped in cars and houses.<\/p>\n

A number of schools are expected to be closed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Flash flooding was reported on multiple roads around Bahrs Scrub, Belmont, Gumdale, Loganholme, Logan Reserve, Logan Village, Rochedale, Stockleigh and Wellington Point.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology reported a wind gust of 96 km\/h was recorded at Brisbane Airport just after 5pm.<\/p>\n

Almost 80mm of rain was recorded at Wishart, in Brisbane’s south, over a 30-minute period.<\/p>\n

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Floodwaters entered this bus as it travelled from the city to Victoria Point. (Supplied: Alleah Newman)<\/p>\n

75mm of rain was recorded in 30 minutes at Chandler and Leslie Harrison Dam.<\/p>\n

At Canungra in the Scenic Rim, 2cm hailstones were observed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The wild weather took a toll on public transport and Translink has warned of delays of up to one hour on the Beenleigh lines and half-hour delays on the Cleveland, Ferny Grove and Shorncliffe lines.<\/p>\n

Bureau meteorologist Harry Clarke said the dangerous storm had now moved out to sea.<\/p>\n

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The majority of the storm damage was concentrated on suburbs in Logan. (Supplied: Nicholas Thompson)<\/p>\n

He said the wind was the “primary factor” in the storms.<\/p>\n

“It missed our official wind observation stations unfortunately but no doubt some gusts over 100 km\/h based on some of the damage we’ve seen.”<\/p>\n

A severe thunderstorm warning for destructive winds, giant hailstones and heavy rainfall was issued by the bureau on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Storm damage at Chambers Flat in Logan.\u00a0 (Supplied: Sarah Haskmann)<\/p>\n

The bureau said several severe storm cells had developed across south-east Queensland, with areas including the Brisbane CBD, Buperngary, Caboolture, Kilcoy and Mount Tamborine expected to see storm activity.<\/p>\n

Areas that could be affected over the next hour include Cleveland, Victoria Point, Ormiston, Peel Island and Brisbane Airport.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for Brisbane Airport said one inbound flight from Sydney to Brisbane had been diverted to the Gold Coast due to storm activity.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson said delays and cancellations are expected and advised passengers to check with their airline for updates.<\/p>\n

The weather bureau has predicted further storm activity on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Mr Clarke said the focus will likely be further inland.<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow afternoon we’re likely to see storms kick off out towards the Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley and the Ipswich area. They will struggle to make it to the coast.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 81,000 households across south-east Queensland were left without power on Wednesday night when “very dangerous” storms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":960498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63414,43,508956,33678,44,38664,94,701,2484,34792,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-960497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-energex","tag-headlines","tag-jimboomba","tag-logan","tag-news","tag-power-outages","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-scenic-rim","tag-storms","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}