RTÉ.ie reports on the aftermath in Brisbane after a supercell storm hit the city yesterday:
Brisbane is recovering after being hit by a massive storm, which has caused much damage and injured 39 people.
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Brisbane in Australia is cleaning up after a massive hail storm ripped through the city yesterday afternoon.
Officials said the storm was one of the worst seen in the country and the strongest to hit the city of Brisbane in three decades.
The storm rained hailstones the size of tennis balls on cars and buildings yesterday, flooding streets and injuring 39 people.
Gusts of up to 140km/h, as strong as a Category Two cyclone, also uprooted trees and brought down power lines.
In one of the more dramatic scenes, at least four light planes were flipped over at Archerfield Airport, 11km from Brisbane’s central business district.
“It looks like the apocalypse,” one resident told reporters.
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