A woman was killed in eastern Australia after a Christmas Eve storm left about 120,000 households without power, authorities said today.

The 59-year-old woman died after a tree fell in high winds in the Gold Coast (east) area, Jay Newton of the Ambulance Service said.

“It was like a disaster area, there were trees all over the road,” he told reporters.

The storm knocked out power lines around Brisbane, the regional capital in Queensland, local electricity provider Energex said, citing “catastrophic and widespread damage on a cyclone scale”.

“Over 800 power lines down, 120,000 customers without power, it will take days to restore service,” the company said on platform X (formerly Twitter).

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting another severe wave of storms with strong winds, hail and heavy rain for today, Tuesday. At the same time, he issued a flood warning for a river located approximately 40 km from the Gold Coast.