THE incredible damage the storm inflicted on parts of The Gap made areas of the suburb look like a war zone, Courier-Mail reporters said this morning.
Trent Dalton told of his shock at seeing an intense corridor of damage.
"It's unbelieveable", he told couriermail.com.au.
He said Waterworks Road resident Bob Rowe completely lost his roof - and parts of it were still hanging on power lines 40m away.
"It's unbelievable mate _ just complete and utter devastation", Dalton said.
"It seems to have cut a swathe across Waterworks Road."
Dalton stood on a resident's back deck and looked out "to views across The Gap that were never once there".
He said houses which had once been completely concealed by trees were now laid bare.
"It looks like someone's dropped a military airstrike on this particular part, right through The Gap."
Dalton said any tree taller than 10m "has just sort of snapped in half".
He said a 45-cm thick pine tree at the back of Mr Rowe's house snapped in half and the missing piece had disappeared.
Reporter Robyn Ironside visited damage along Waterworks Road and Settlement Road.
"It was accurate in the way police were saying it looked like a war zone - I've never seen anything like it", she said.
"Big trees were snapped off, there are trees in pools, trees in gardens ..."
She said the playground at The Gap State School was completely demolished after a large tree crushed all the play equipment.
"I don't think there's a a single swing or slippery dip that could be salavaged", Ironside said.
She said the surprising nature of the damage was that it was confined to such a narrow area.
"There's an obvious area where it was just pummelled - and metres either side of it doesn't look like anything's happened at all".
She said trees and branches tangled in powerlines were such a mess "It looks like they've been crocheted into them.
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