Original story by Charmaine Kane at ABC News
Emergency services say they expect to be cleaning up for days after severe thunderstorms battered Queensland’s northern Gold Coast yesterday.
The State Emergency Service (SES) got 360 calls for help from people whose homes were damaged in the storm,
Hail as big as golf balls pounded suburbs just after 4:00pm (AEST) yesterday, including Hope Island, Coomera, Coomera Waters and Oxenford.
Wind gusts of up to 140 kilometres per hour were recorded.
A number of homes and businesses were damaged.
A man aged in his 40s and a 15-year-old girl suffered minor injuries after a large tree fell on their car in Upper Coomera.
Gold Coast SES controller Jayd Woolard says extra crews are being called in to help continue the clean-up today.
“Most of the damage has been leaky roofs, broken tiles, broken windows and some trees down,” he said.
Mr Woolard says one ceiling was in danger of collapsing and trees crashed onto two cars.
“Most of the damage is reasonably minor, there are some major bits out there and we are just doing our best to get through all the jobs,” he said.
“We had around 360 jobs called in last night and so far we have completed about 120 of them.”
Translink says all Gold Coast train and bus services are running as normal.
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