By David Estcourt
Wild winds have brought down trees and power lines across Victoria, leaving thousands without power, people trapped inside their homes and some regional towns completely cut off.
Police received hundreds of calls reporting fallen trees blocking roads overnight, particularly from residents near the Yarra Ranges.
A tree blocks a road in Croydon.Credit:Nine News Melbourne
“Trentham is totally isolated with no roads in or out,” Victoria Police spokeswoman Sergeant Julie-Anne Newman said told 3AW. “Ballarat, Trentham, Ballan, Gordon don’t have any power and Daylesford.”
At 6.30am, Emergency Victoria had listed 2018 separate incidents and 44 warnings as flood and winds bombarded eastern Victoria.
About 140,000 Victorian homes are without power after extreme winds lashed the state, according to AusNet Services. Residents are being warned that power may not be restored until Friday. Powercor is reporting nearly 30,000 outages.
A screenshot from the state’s emergency website.Credit:Vic Emergency
The awnings on department store David Jones on Bourke Street have reportedly been stripped off by the wind.
The CFA has been deployed to remove trees that have blocked roads throughout Victoria. Emergency services are still listing flood warnings throughout Gippsland and Victoria’s east.
Sergeant Newman said the damage was so widespread and extensive that emergency services were having trouble reaching people injured in the storm.
“A lot of the roads are blocked and police can’t even get in there,” she said.
She said that police had to trek more than 1.5km kilometres to rescue a woman from Olinda with a head injury after they became trapped by trees falling in the surrounding area.
“They trekked over one-and-a-half kilometres through this weather [with] the risk of other trees falling,” she said.
“They’ve made their way to this woman and child and were able to walk them out … the CFA had to clear the trees before they could leave.”
Flooding has been reported throughout the state with authorities keeping dozens of warnings in place on Thursday morning.Credit:Nine News Melbourne
A ceiling in Lilydale, in Melbourne’s outer north eastern suburbs, had buckled and collapsed, according to Nine News Melbourne.
Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Miriam Bradbury said consistent strong winds had caused damage across the state.
The ceiling of a Lilydale house collapses under the presser of extreme weather in Melbourne’s outer north east.Credit:Nine News Melbourne
“We’ve had strong, sustained winds throughout the night … even though we’ve only had a few gusts over 90 km/h the fact that they were strong throughout the night is what was significant,” she said.
She said winds had started to case on Thursday morning but the bureau had recorded highs last night of 85 km/h at Moorabbin and Melbourne Airport.
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David Estcourt is a court and general news reporter at The Age.
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