SES Director Mick Lowe response to extreme weather

The SES details the number of incidents around the state as extreme winds and flooding damage properties and infrastructure in Tasmania.

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00:00So we're seeing another wild night of weather across the state with extensive destruction,

00:05in particular in the north of the state this time and around the Greater Launceston area.

00:11SES responded to 347 requests for assistance last night and that's coming off a busy week

00:18that's seen around 760 requests for assistance since Tuesday with this prolonged weather event

00:24that we have been working through.

00:26The damage and destruction we saw last night was wind driven primarily, broken windows,

00:33broken brews, a lot of downed trees and there's a lot of debris out there

00:37so we do ask everyone to continue to remain safe.

00:40We're also monitoring minor and moderate flooding across the state,

00:48in particular the river systems in the north.

00:50There are currently 20 warnings that are in place with one emergency warning to evacuate

00:57which is in the Derwent River in around the Meadowbank area.

01:02We're continuing to monitor these conditions.

01:06Overnight we are expecting some damaging winds tonight.

01:11We're continuing to work through the assistance,

01:14so work through the requests for assistance that we have at the moment

01:18and our crews are doing an amazing job and continue to do so.

01:22They're obviously fairly fatigued at this point after several days of action

01:26and we're rotating those crews to make sure that they're looking after themselves.

01:31We ask the community to continue to monitor the alerts and the warnings

01:35on the TasAlert website or the TasAlert app

01:38to maintain awareness of what the conditions are around those.

01:42Conditions are changing a little bit.

01:44There will be changes to warnings, so please continue to monitor the conditions

01:49and behave in an appropriate manner to the conditions

01:53and ensure that you're making good decisions and staying safe.