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Flash flooding has left lots of debris on farm fences near Wondai in the South Burnett region after a storm on Saturday night. - ABC
A South Burnett landholder says a series of narrow storms flattened fences, uprooted trees and damaged infrastructure at the weekend.
Greg Day said his property Dayview, seven kilometres west of Wondai, was hit by a number of narrow storms on both Friday and Saturday night.
Since then, Mr Day said he and his neighbours have been cleaning up a big mess.
He said it comes on top of a brilliant month of rain where he measured around 400mm out of his gauge but he said they could do without the damage.
Mr Day said the latest storms had been quite ferocious including an electrical storm on Friday night.
"It snapped a few trees off, olive trees at ground level, and a couple of other trees had just branches broken off; it was quite severe," he said.
He said the next night was even more damaging and resulted in very heavy rainfall and flash flooding.
"We measured 96mm in the gauge and that's a lot of rain in a very short amount of time and we're up on a bit of a hill," Mr Day said.
"So all that run-off ran down of course into the gullies and when it did stop it sounded like we were at the beach or the surf; you could just hear the water roaring down through the gullies."
Greg Day said most of the damage was to livestock fences, with debris caught in barbed wire, and in some places fences were completely flattened.
"The water has flown across what they call Greenview Road; it's the road that comes out of Wondai and it has gone straight over the top and just flattened fences."
Mr Day said on one farm the flood water moved so quickly and with such force that it moved a stock water trough and tank.
"Down on the flats talking to one fellow and he had a 'cup and saucer' water trough and it has disappeared. I'm not quite sure what colour it is but he can't even see it, so I don't know how many kilometres down the paddock it has gone," he said.
"Cup and saucer" troughs can weigh up to 20 tonnes when full, and are used by many farmers for either water or molasses.
Greg Day said he and his neighbours had been working hard all day dodging black snakes and turtles to try to fix fences and get the trash off the barbed wire.
ABC