A Queensland teenager has described the terrifying moment a lightning bolt smashed through her bedroom ceiling and set her mattress on fire.
Bloom Kermode, 17, from Burpengary, north of Brisbane, was relaxing in bed while severe storms lashed the region early on Friday morning.
At about 3am a bolt of lightning caused her bedroom ceiling to cave in.
'It hit the roof and everything just exploded,' Ms Kermode told 7News.
'Everything was white and I had this ringing in my ears.'
All of the teen's electrical cables and powerpoints were destroyed in the blast.
The current had also seemed to pass through her body.
Ms Kermode had been texting on her phone while it was charging at the time of the strike, and found that her arm was suddenly 'stuck... tensed, and everything was numb, fully numb'.
Bloom Kermode (pictured) from Burpengary, north of Brisbane, was relaxing in bed while severe storms lashed the region early on Friday morning
All of the teen's cables and powerpoints were destroyed when lightning struck her bedroom at 3am on Friday morning (pictured)
Next-door, Ms Kermod's neighbour Jack Thom had also been scrolling on his phone at the time of the strike and received a 'good shock' from the lightning.
'Right across my arms. Woke me up,' he said.
A second woman was rushed to hospital with a neck injury after being struck by lightning at a home in Yandina on the Sunshine Coast at about 12.45am.
In all, 2,500 lightning strikes were unleashed as storms lashed Queensland's southeast early on Friday, cancelling Anzac Day services in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast.
At Nambour, on the Sunshine Coast, 200mm of rain fell in just three hours, causing flooding for homes and businesses that were still recovering from Cyclone Alfred.
While the wild weather appears to have passed, on Saturday there remained the chance of a thunderstorm in southern Queensland and over northern and western Cape York Peninsula, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
On Sunday, there is a chance of a thunderstorm near the NSW border east of St George, and over northern Cape York Peninsula.
