Thank you for the update Sharjay. That is sad to hear of all the damage. The severe part of the storm seemed to have carved out a path. I know the Sunny Coast pretty well and I took all the short cuts I knew and it is like you said one Street was hit but another next to it was clear albeit a few twigs on power lines.

I feel for the people and their house becoming unstable, must have been on stilts and shifted or had very poor tie down and bracing.

You think of the movie Twister when this sort of damage happens. How the storm can destroy one house and leave the house next to it untouched.

I was nervous in Hoggs. I did put on a front so my daughter and wife wouldn’t panic. I was really worried with all the glass around but I just said to them and the people next to us to just get under our table if it gets bad. It was a big solid slab of timber.

The rear flank of the storm smashed a bit of hail into the windows but fortunately it changed direction quickly.

I am kicking myself I didn’t video the small tornado especially when it came off the land and hit the water. Everyone was able to see it then. I could see the debris outside and everyone was trying to work out what I was saying, plus the roar of the wind sounding like jet, no-one had heard that before and they didn’t understand what it was.

There is another video, and you can hear the roar of the wind, and the people shooting it on one of the top floors of their apartment are just laughing. I wonder if it was their heavy deck chairs that landed on the main road at Mooloolaba.

As we drove down the Bruce you could see the path the storm took. Would love to have got into a chopper and taken some photos of the path. So many tress just snapped and twisted.