Residents trapped in homes, motorists pulled from cars as storm lashes Hervey Bay

“You know, usually thunder lasts for 10 to 15 minutes, but it kept going and kept going, hour on hour.

“We got huge lightning cracks, and then we started getting insanely heavy rain.”

Flash flooding swamped cars, houses and the local Woolworths supermarket in Pialba. People had to abandon…