Over 3,000 without electricity in SE Qld

Some 1600 lightning strikes were recorded and power lines were brought down as
storms rolled across a wide area of southeast Queensland on Sunday.
An Energex spokeswoman said more than 3,000 customers were left without electricity,
but work crews were working to restore power.
"We have had a couple of explosions reported, which usually means lightning has
struck somewhere," the spokeswoman told AAP.
"It's usually a transformer on a power pole that's been hit.
"There were also 1,600 lightning strikes."
Power failures had been caused by lightning strikes and by power lines being brought
down, she said.
The Bureau of Meteorology has warned more storms are expected to move across
southeast Queensland late on Sunday afternoon and early in the evening.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Community Safety reported relatively few calls,
mostly for water penetration.
"We've had 18 calls and they are mainly for leaking," she told AAP.
"They have been spread throughout the area so it's not like one area was seriously
affected."