Clean-up efforts continue after destructive winds in Victoria

ABC NEWS (Australia)

In Victoria, the clean-up and recovery efforts continue after destructive winds lashed the state. Tens of thousands of properties remain without power.

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00:00It's certainly milder weather here in Melbourne than the bad storms we saw rolling through

00:07on Sunday night, but the clean-up is well and truly still ongoing.

00:13You can see behind me the rubble that's been left after wild winds ripped through this

00:19cafe in Armidale in south-east Melbourne.

00:23And the SES says that there are still just over 400 active jobs.

00:29That's of the 4,700 odd jobs that they received and calls for help since 7pm on Sunday night.

00:37More than 3,300 of those were for trees down and about 1,300 of them were for building

00:45damage like what you can see here behind me.

00:49Now we've heard from Mornington Peninsula Mayor.

00:52He is saying that they've actually put out three relief centres there for people who

00:58are now without power, so they don't have any access to hot showers or to be able to

01:04even charge their phones.

01:07And earlier on we heard from Miriam Bradbury.

01:10She's a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology and she says that this was

01:15the most significant system that actually came through on Sunday sweeping through the

01:22south-east and it was very widespread through large parts of Melbourne and Victoria.

01:29We saw some very significant gusts as it moved through with many locations particularly through

01:34southern and central Victoria seeing their highest wind gust for September.

01:39So that included places like Faulkner Beacon around the Port Phillip Bay area which got

01:43up to 141 kilometres an hour.

01:46We had 121 kilometres an hour at St Kilda, not a September record there but still incredibly

01:51strong as that front came through but it was more widespread than that.

01:55Wangaratta got up to 98 kilometres an hour, the strongest wind gust up that far north.

02:00That's Miriam Bradbury, a senior meteorologist from the Bureau there and we know that there

02:06are around 40,000 homes that remain without power.

02:11We've heard from the SES as well that they've actually got some 29 people from New South

02:17Wales so ground crews arrived just after midnight.

02:20They're going to be going out and helping to clean up in some of the worst affected

02:25areas.

02:26That includes over in Gippsland in the states east as well as the southern metropolitan

02:31area, areas like Frankston which were really hard hit.

02:36The Weather Bureau and the SES says that they're now waiting to gear up for the next major

02:41front that's going to come through around Wednesday.

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