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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Officials say Australia's third-largest city has been lashed by its worst storm in decades, with wind, rain and hail lifting roofs, cutting power lines, flooding streets and injuring a dozen people.
State-owned electricity supplier Energex says up to 90,000 homes in Brisbane lost power Thursday, with trees and hundreds of power lines brought down by winds gusting to 87 mph. Some 68,000 homes remain blacked out.
The storm struck late Thursday afternoon, trapping commuters for hours in stalled electric trains. Television news broadcasts showed downtown high-rise windows smashed, light planes flipped upside down on an airfield and cars almost completely submerged in flooded streets.
The storm is being described as the worst to hit the city of 2.2 million people since 1985.
Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports that the convention center that hosted President Barack Obama and other world leaders at the G-20 summit two weeks ago had sustained hail and water damage.
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