Thousands of people are still waiting for power to be restored

ABC NEWS (Australia)

While electricity is slowly being restored for some residents of southeast Queensland, there are still many people who don't have power and are uncertain of when things will be back to normal.

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00:00I'm here at Bundle on the Gold Coast and just behind me there's a whole heap of Energex

00:07workers working to get a downed power line back online.

00:13They're one of the many crews that are working across the Gold Coast to get power switched

00:18on to the city.

00:20There are still 200,000 customers in South East Queensland that don't have their power

00:27restored.

00:29And that loss of power is also having an impact on mobile and internet services.

00:35Chatting to Telstra and Optus, they can't get their mobile base sites back online if

00:41they're without power.

00:43They do have some generators in place but that power outage is still causing an issue.

00:50And the outages are having a real flow on effect to the community.

00:54I just spoke to a woman here who was confused about when power would be going back on.

01:00She said she has got no power to her fridge so her food has gone off.

01:06And there's just a lot of questions about when life will get back to normal.

01:12I spoke to another man about how the power outages have impacted his business.

01:18It's huge on everybody because the businesses have no revenue and that's what drives

01:24everything so the fixed costs go on so it is a huge impact.

01:29We're lucky today we've been able to open at the Sunshine Coast so we'll just gradually

01:33get back into it.

01:35At this stage it's just a wait and see for many Gold Coast residents to see when their

01:40life will return to normal.

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