So, God, just saying, Look, if you're gonna take the house, take the heads that just saved me A killer Storm sweeps a man to his death and cuts a path of destruction through the Southeast.

The strength of a cyclone, The torrents of a flood The fiercest storm in a generation leaves thousands and devastated in its wake a lunchtime.

Today, 4000 people have lodged insurance claims, all of them living in that great swathe of destruction that cut through here and ended at the Big Bey's mansion near the Compare a Bush land, just one of 500 homes that have been hit.

You'd swear we were looking at America's Tornado Alley, not one of Brisbane Better hillsides where pieces off mansion are littered across the bush.

A roof flung 700 meters down the mountain thief power went out.

And for more than 40,000 southeast Queenslanders, it still hasn't come back on.

They have to be one of the most severe storms when it comes to the terms of electricity network.

Nearly 230,000 homes and businesses were blacked out, and eject says it's the worst storm it's had to cope with in more than two decades, glue and impending do so dark, so green or we could do was reach for our cameras and record what was to become history theme.

What was a spectacular light show on Mount Cooper was hell on earth.

For those below on.

It wasn't only the gap.

Torrents of water gushed into homes.

Ceilings collapsed under the weight of too much water.

Drivers caught in the thick of it rushed for cover.

And then there was the wind.

Theo.

Gusts of up to 130 kilometers an hour ripped off roofs, dumping them in backyards and on cars.

Thousands of trees were uprooted, power poles to crash to the ground theme.

Northern suburbs were badly hit on, John says.

It certainly felt like a cyclone fence is ripped out, trees down and that thundering rain and Kate center shots from the gap.

There, street was inundated.

All that water had to go somewhere.

It was flowing right across their street, not helped by the massive trees that came down and dammed up the roads.

It looks like in his file Cyclone Larry in 2006 but this is Brisbane, the gap just out the back of Vancouver.

Storm cut a swathe of devastation through what wasthe one of Brisbane lengthiest suburbs.

Homes destroyed like a bomb had gone off.

Millions of dollars worth of damage caused in minutes.

It struck with incredible force.

A resident shop.

These pictures teenage girl could do nothing.

Our inside my windows.

Birkin Only Ramadan.

A deluge of Ryan Highland winds hail everywhere.

I think this is where Moloch straight.

It's one of the gaps.

Worst hit areas.

Power lines are down, rubes thrown into the street.

Almost every home is damaged.

The force of the storm hitting Furnace Hills theme Maxfield sisters stopped filming.

Data is actually inside, holding the winners, and you thought it might have broken.

The hail might have broken through that We know Scott Sheridan's car is now a convertible.

Come on, drive straight down the backyard and before B and these.

Unbelievable.

When you hear thunder clap half a second after lightning strikes, you know you really in the middle of storms brought so much rain.

Channel seven's roof just couldn't take the weight corridors filled with water.

Computers destroyed, chaotic.

It was unbelievable.

I mean, I didn't expect that I need to bring my gun boots to work When I came in today, today, tonight, stuff which they had this on Thistle is a couple of hours after the storm is finished, so it's gonna be a lot of cleaning up, but we'll still get today or tomorrow night.

And despite the chaos, amazingly seven news dude, get to it.

Last night, staff dropped everything and came to the station to help out.

The whole soon was enough to shock the man who has been organizing and planning the coverage of news stories for 41 years.

Oh, I'm not saying that not a not a proper o'clock at night and were pouring every way of computers gone.

And to be able to come back from that, that's one of the amazing things in television.

For a while, it was touch and go.

Welcome to the Channel seven news rooms.

It's about seven.

Sentiment is deep in water at the moment.

Well, it's a little bit drier underfoot today, but there's still plenty of cleaning up to do.

The whole station's being dried out by these huge industrial fans, so not the easiest working conditions.

But there is one guarantee we will keep bringing you the news every night to leave the Commons.