BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Damaging winds, rain and hail pelted Australia's southern Queensland Tuesday, leaving at least 32,000 homes without power, meteorologists said.
The state's southeast was hardest hit by a line of severe thunderstorms that tore through Logan, Ipswich, the northern suburbs of Brisbane and rural areas of the Sunshine Coast, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Power lines were downed, traffic lights disabled and train service disrupted by the severe weather, Queensland officials said.
"Some of the low-lying spots around Goodna have been subjected to flooding, quite unexpectedly," Ipswich city councillor Paul Tully told the ABC. "The rain, the intensity of it, the branches have been knocked off the trees. I've seen wheelie bins knocked out into the middle of the road. The winds were so strong and traffic on some of the roads around Goodna is at a complete standstill."
Transit officials said train service was disrupted on Queensland's Caboolture, Shorncliffe, Airport and Doomben lines.
