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March 14, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Storm cells that crossed the South Burnett on Thursday afternoon caused widespread blackouts, although power was restored within half an hour in most locations.<\/p>\n

Power was lost from Boondooma to Maidenwell, with more than 6800 Ergon Energy customers losing power at some point as the storms crossed just after 5:00pm.<\/p>\n

The longest outage appears to have occurred in the Brooklands to Maidenwell area where about 470 customers lost power for about an hour.<\/p>\n

By 7:00pm, power had been restored across the region except for parts of Nanango where two outages were still affecting a total of 529 Ergon customers.<\/p>\n

About 220 customers were also without power in the Benarkin \/ Taromeo area as well as a\u00a0handful of residences in Durong, Inverlaw, Kingaroy and Wooroolin.<\/p>\n

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The storms brought welcome rain to some parts of the South Burnett while other areas received almost nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology noted that\u00a052mm was recorded at Blackbutt during the afternoon.<\/p>\n

southburnett.com.au<\/strong> readers reported falls of 12mm (Coolabunia), 20mm (Wattle Camp), 20mm (Murgon), 56mm (Bjelke-Petersen Dam) and 40mm (Nanango).<\/p>\n

Lightning strikes were also blamed for starting fires at Boyneside and Hodgleigh.<\/p>\n

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