ABC, By: Sharnie Kim and Kier Shorey, 11/19/2013
Severe weather overnight has damaged buildings at Mount Garnet in far north Queensland. Daryl Camp from Emergency Management Queensland says a service station and at least three houses have lost part of their roofs. The storm also brought down trees and powerlines. Mr Camp says locals were taken by surprise. "The SES [State Emergency Service] guys could see the storm coming so they went in and started preparing, making sure they were ready," he said. "When the hail started coming down they all moved inside and closed the roller doors and what they had to do was park the cars against the doors because the winds were that strong they almost blew the roller doors in. A large tree fell down and blocked their building, the roller doors, so they cleaned that up and then they went straight out and they went around the town. They certainly weren't expecting it to be quite that severe and there was no severe thunderstorm warning for that area." Michael Chong from the Mount Garnet roadhouse says the storm was reminiscent of a cyclone.
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