FLAGSTONE residents spent a terrifying afternoon on Wednesday listening to trees crashing around them and hail pelting down as a vicious storm ripped through the suburb about 3pm.
While brief, the thunderstorm caused damage to dozens of properties in the area including houses on Whittling Court.
Madeline Eadie who lives on the corner of Bushman Drive and Whittling Court, said she was petrified listening to the commotion from inside her house.
"It was so loud, it came on so quick, all of a sudden I could hear this crashing sound and I looked outside and the neighbour's shed was in the backyard," she said.
The force of the wind had lifted the garden shed from Bushman Drive into Ms Eadie's property, where luckily, she said, it missed hitting her house.
Tamara Hannifey who lives next door to Ms Eadie, on Whittling Court, said she was driving her two boys home when the wind started howling around the car.
When she arrived at her house she discovered a large tree had landed about half a metre from her bedroom window.
Several other trees had also come crashing down in the yard, destroying some of her children's toys which had been left outside.
"We are lucky that no one was hurt, and there's no damage done to the house, but it's going to be a big clean up for us," she said.
"What we really needed was rain, but out of all that I don't think we really got that much."
Ms Hannifey said her family had rescued an injured bird which they thought might have been in one of the trees that fell.
They were going to look after it until they could send it to a wildlife carer, she said.
After all of the drama of the storm, the Jimboomba area recorded just over 20 millimetres of rain.
