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Severe weather in Victoria expected to continue
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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8/28/2024
Severe weather warnings for damaging winds are in place across multiple states this morning. Large parts of Victoria are recovering after trees were downed and power cut, and more damaging gusts are expected today.
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At State Control Centre, SES officers have been busy taking calls from residents who've
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woken this morning to the scenes of destruction from those really damaging winds.
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They've had well over 500 calls for help.
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At least 400 of those have been for trees down and more than 70 for buildings that have
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been damaged.
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Earlier on we heard from Bev, one resident who lives in Chelsea Heights, which is in
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Melbourne's southeastern suburbs, and she says that she's very lucky but she still is
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shaking after a tree that crashed down narrowly missed her home.
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I heard this almighty crash outside and was very concerned and I looked out my window
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and saw tree branches against the edge of my window.
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So I came downstairs to investigate what was happening and saw a branch of my tree
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had come off.
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Very fortunately it just missed my window except for the few branches that touched it.
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And there are severe weather warnings for damaging winds and associated thunderstorms
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or squally rain that covers more than half of the state of Victoria.
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We've heard from the SES's Director of Operations, Tim Webush, and he says that along with those
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damaging wind warnings, there are also gale warnings for the coasts as well as warnings
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for damaging surf and abnormally high tides.
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So he says that today is not the day to go out and do any rock fishing.
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He says that in terms of trees down, the majority of the damage that we have seen overnight
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has been in Melbourne's east and also southeast, so suburbs like Emerald as well as Warragul
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and Pakenham.
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Had a house damaged in Glen Waverley in the back of the house that's collapsed as a result
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of a large tree coming down.
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Fortunately no injuries there, but we are expecting as the winds cross the state throughout
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the day and they'll re-intensify across Melbourne this afternoon, that we will see further damage
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as the winds move through the state.
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We have seen some peak gusts of 128 kilometres per hour at Mount Buller and over in the states
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west in Portland there were gusts of up to 106 kilometres per hour and in Kilmore we've
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seen around 93 kilometres per hour, but it's the sustained winds that are also causing
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the damage.
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For example, in Kilmore Gap, which is just north of Melbourne, we've seen sustained winds
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of around 70 kilometres per hour and also some gusts across Melbourne metropolitan area
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between 60 to 70 kilometres per hour as well.
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Now apart from the warnings here in Victoria, there are also some warnings for South Australia
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as well.
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In the south east part of the state however, these conditions are easing as that weather
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system starts to contract to the east.
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We're also seeing some of those severe weather warnings for damaging winds across Tasmania's
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western and northern areas and we're hearing from the Weather Bureau that some of these
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winds are expected to start to ease throughout the morning, however they'll then start to
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pick up again in the afternoon so we will see those gusts once again happening before
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finally easing again later tonight.
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