Victorians warned to expect more strong and damaging winds today

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Severe weather warnings for damaging winds are in place across multiple states this afternoon. Large parts of Victoria are recovering after trees were downed and power cut, and more damaging gusts are expected today.

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00:00Well, it's still extremely windy here.

00:05After about 2 o'clock yesterday, Melbourne was hit with this huge storm and overnight

00:09the SES has been extremely busy responding to calls for assistance.

00:13In the Alpine regions, they recorded wind speeds of up to 130 kilometres an hour and

00:18just outside this residence here, they woke up at around 5am this morning to see this

00:22branch fallen on their roof.

00:25Now the SES has responded to around 670 calls as of 9.30am this morning, 531 of those were

00:32because of trees down and 97 associated with building damage.

00:36They say that the busiest areas were in Emerald, Warragul and Upper Yarra and they also mentioned

00:42that the power is still out for around 6,800 residents across the state.

00:47Now just earlier we were in Boronia where the SES was fixing the power poles after a

00:52tree had gone down in that area.

00:55Glen Waverley as well this morning had a tree in a house that had fallen right through the

00:59lounge room.

01:00Luckily nobody was injured.

01:02Now the advice to the SES is the same as it has been this morning which is to take care

01:06on roads and avoid any debris and they'll be giving us another update at around 2.30.

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