Thousands of residents may be without power in south-east Queensland for 10 days after tornado, storm

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Thousands of people are without power in southeast Queensland, as the clean up from last week's storm continues. Intense rain overnight has caused some flooding in some areas.

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00:00 16,000 customers across the Gold Coast scenic rim and Logan are still without power this

00:08 morning after a tornado ripped through the region on Christmas night.

00:14 Now the weather today here on the Gold Coast isn't helping that situation to try and get

00:19 electricity back on for people.

00:22 The bomb has actually just issued a severe weather warning for heavy rainfall which may

00:27 lead to flash flooding on the Gold Coast and in the scenic rim as a stationary trough lingers

00:34 over southeast Queensland.

00:37 Localised roads are already being closed in some parts of the Gold Coast and the scenic

00:44 rim and the Little Narang Dam even recorded 150mm of rainfall in the 3 hours to 5.15am

00:54 this morning.

00:55 Now residents are still waiting out for power with residents in some places like Jimboomba

01:03 and Tamborine Mountain set to have to wait until January 5th to get their power back

01:10 on.

01:11 Now that will be 10 days they will have had without electricity and for some of those

01:16 residents they don't have running water, they can't get access to a shower so it certainly

01:22 hasn't been the relaxing Christmas and New Years Eve period for many people here on the

01:29 Gold Coast and in the scenic rim.

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