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A Kingaroy mother thought her baby was going to die after being trapped by hail after being trapped in her car during the supercell storm that ravaged the South Burnett area of Queensland. yesterday.
Fiona Simpson, 23, was traveling home with her 78-year-old grandmother and 4-month-old daughter as rain began to rain from Nanango on the D'Aguilar Highway.
Mrs. Simpson stated that she had not heard the warnings, but that she knew that she would need to park her car when she began to get heavy.
"I did not drive very fast because I did not see very well … I could not see in front of me, I could not even see the line on the road"
She said the next thing she heard was a big shot.
"All this rain is starting to happen, and my daughter's back window was just open … she left," she said.
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"It was so scary but there was no time to worry … everything happened so fast."
The quick – witted mother jumped to the back of her car and served as a human shield to her baby.
"I jumped over the back seat, over her car seat, holding my body over her," she said.
"I looked down and I could see that she was screaming but I could not even hear it, it's how strong it was."
After another pane was broken at the front of the car, Mrs. Simpson attempted to help her grandmother, but both women were hit by large hail stones.
Once the storm cell passed, Mrs. Simpson drove her badly damaged car to a nearby house and shouted for help before the residents called an ambulance.
Mrs. Simpson said that once the paramedics arrived, she was shocked and her whole body felt "numb".
"Only when I took the ambulance did I realize that if I did not do it, she [her baby] could have been seriously injured or killed, everything could have happened, "she said.
Her grandmother spent the night at Kingaroy Hospital after most of the skin of her left arm was shredded, while the other remained "completely black" because of bruising.
Mrs. Simpson had significant blues on most of her body, but her daughter had small "bumps" on her.
Despite the terrifying ordeal, the mother said that she would not hesitate to do the same again.
"I'm only a mom – you do everything you can to protect your child, no matter the circumstances, even at your own expense and I'll do it again," she said.
"In the end, all that matters is that we are alive … a car can be replaced, bruises can heal and we are all safe for the moment.
"If you know that a storm is coming, wait, we've done the right thing, we could not have done anything more, I can not believe hail could have done that."
The Minister of Emergency Services, Craig Crawford, said that there had been more than 330 calls from SES overnight, and that their numbers would increase during the day.
Generalized storms, destructive winds and heavy hail struck the southern regions of Burnett up to the Sunshine Coast with a striking Tansey tornado, northwest of Murgon, shortly after 3 pm.
The roofs of the houses and sheds were torn down, the orchards were decimated and the cattle became afraid after the storm of supercells that devastated the area.
Nearly 10,000 properties affected by the storm remain without electricity this morning.
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Nanango-4615,
maroochydore-4558,
qld,
Australia,
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bundaberg-4670,
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