Victorians warned to expect more damaging winds in coming days

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Victoria's wild weather has turned fatal. One person has died after being trapped in their car by a fallen tree in Victoria’s south-west. Multiple homes have been destroyed and authorities warn there's more to come.

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00:00Crushed in a split second.

00:05A fallen tree trapped two people this afternoon as they drove along a regional road in Jelly

00:10Brand in the Otways.

00:12Despite frantic efforts, the driver couldn't be saved.

00:15His passenger has critical injuries.

00:17Very large trees come down on a vehicle and has trapped two occupants in that vehicle.

00:23It was a tragic outcome of a severe weather system wreaking havoc across the state.

00:28Rescue crews were kept busy.

00:30Luckily no one was home when a tree hit this house in Glen Waverley, but the suburb was

00:35hit hard.

00:36In this nearby home, a tree lies where the roof once stood.

00:40While further south in Chelsea Heights, locals spent a sleepless night.

00:44I was just sitting on the side of my bed and heard this almighty crash outside.

00:53The SES had more than 1,000 calls over the past 24 hours.

00:57800 for fallen trees alone.

01:00As you can see behind me, in this weather, if they come down, they don't care where they

01:05land.

01:06This branch crashed onto Sharon's Dandenong Ranges home.

01:09I was worried last night because it just comes through and it just howls.

01:14Just howls through.

01:15Those winds knocking out power lines in Baronia.

01:19Thousands are still waiting for electricity to come back on.

01:22The strongest gusts smashed the Alpine region.

01:26128 kilometre wind gusts were recorded in the middle of the night.

01:31Jed Cullican found out just how destructive the winds could be in the high country when

01:36his home in Mansfield was ripped apart on Sunday night.

01:39There was probably a 10 second window where it just roared.

01:44Like I've never heard anything like that before.

01:45I felt like the place was going to get sucked off us here because it started to rattle.

01:50The city hasn't been spared.

01:52Bayside and peninsula suburbs are really copping it with winds of up to 100 kilometres an hour.

01:58But there's no break in the weather yet, with a new front expected to move in on Friday.

02:02Certainly hang on to your hats for quite a few days.

02:06On Port Phillip Bay, some piers were closed.

02:09We are expecting to see abnormally high tide with dangerous surf.

02:13And the weather isn't expected to ease until after the weekend.

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