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Subscriber only Southeast Queensland could be hit with water restrictions later this year despite some dams, particularly on the Sunshine Coast, being full. Unitywater has urged residents to restrict their usage in all of southeast Queensland despite dams, such as Wappa in Yandina, sitting at 100.5 per cent. Communications and engagement manager Jana Dore said the SEQ water grid supplied water to everyone on the Gold Coast, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. While we have some dams that are full or close to full we still have some dry areas, she said. There s little rain ahead and it s not like our summer months and we can t always rely on the rain.
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Southeast Queensland was smashed by severe thunderstorms on Wednesday evening, with giant hail, 100,000 lightning strikes, flash flooding and damaging winds.
Brisbane’s peak-hour traffic was thrown into chaos with suspended trains, traffic light outages, flash flooding and hour-long delays to commuters through key inner-city routes.
Energex reported about 11,000 properties without power at 6.30pm, most on the Sunshine Coast.
Flash flooding was reported across Brisbane, with at least two vehicles caught in floodwater at Moorooka. Rain gushes in through the broken rook of the Kmart store at Sunshine Plaza in Maroochydore.
Footage has emerged from inside a popular store at the Sunshine Plaza shopping centre in Maroochydore showing the roof gushing water after hail and wild storms lashed the Sunshine Coast.
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