{"id":2153,"date":"2014-11-28T06:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2014-11-28T06:50:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T11:50:01","slug":"brisbane-stunned-by-severe-storm-no-time-to-evacuate-no-warning-australia-news-theguardian-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane stunned by severe storm: &#8216;no time to evacuate, no warning&#8217; | Australia news | theguardian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2014\/nov\/28\/brisbane-stunned-by-severe-storm-no-time-to-evacuate-no-warning\">Brisbane stunned by severe storm: &#8216;no time to evacuate, no warning&#8217; | Australia news | theguardian.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">The worst hail storm to hit Brisbane in a generation has been declared a catastrophe by insurers and prompted the Queensland government to call in the military to help clean up the damage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">Residents left counting the costs had already begun work in darkness overnight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">The half-hour squall on Thursday afternoon \u2013 dumping up to 70mm of rain and hail as big as tennis balls \u2013 punched holes in glass skyscrapers, lifted apartment block roofs and shattered windows in thousands of properties and cars across the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">The Queensland premier, Campbell Newman, told ABC radio the storm was \u201cprobably the worst to hit city as a whole since 1985\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">Newman said 39 people called ambulances during the storm, but only 12 patients were taken to hospital and none had life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">Malena Salinas came home to find the wreckage of the roof from her three storey unit block in Toowong on the street in front of her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane stunned by severe storm: &#8216;no time to evacuate, no warning&#8217; | Australia news | theguardian.com. 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