Tens of thousands of homes left without power as “big week of thunderstorms” lashes Sunshine State

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Tens of thousands of homes and businesses remain without electricity after severe storms caused chaos across a state's most densely populated area.

Destructive storms have brought down hundreds of trees and left tens of thousands of Queensland homes without power, with more wild weather to come.

South east Queensland is reeling after severe storms brought down powerlines, wind gusts damaged homes and flash flooding cut roads, sparking hundreds of emergency call-outs.

Almost 50,000 homes remained without power on Thursday after the supercells dumped up to 100mm of rain and forced the closure of more than 20 schools.

The SES received more than 300 calls help as the thunderstorms struck late on Wednesday, with almost 240 of them in Logan, south of Brisbane.

Most were related to fallen trees brought down by severe gusts that damaged homes and businesses, blocked roads and cut access to properties.

The maximum gust recorded was 96km/h at Brisbane Airport just after 5pm AEST, reportedly causing a number of flight delays and cancellations.

However, the Bureau of Meteorology said that was likely to be an underestimate of the gale’s force.

“It’s likely that didn’t represent the highest winds out of that storm cell, given the amount of damage that was observed,” senior meteorologist David Crock told AAP.

There were widespread falls of between 50mm to 100mm, with most of the rain falling in the space of half an hour.

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