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Hundreds of Victorian houses are with out energy after a wild storm lashed components of the state.
Extreme thunderstorms and heavy rain hit the Geelong area on Tuesday afternoon, resulting in flash flooding.
The State Emergency Service responded to 116 requests for assist in the world, whereas greater than 1170 properties have been nonetheless with out energy on Wednesday morning.
An additional 734 properties elsewhere within the state have been going through outages on Wednesday after the damaging storm.
There are not any additional climate warnings issued for Victoria.
In the meantime, residents in components of NSW and southeast Queensland are additionally recovering after heavy storms hit on Tuesday evening.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued extreme thunderstorm warnings for Ipswich, southwest of Brisbane, and Campbelltown, southwest of Sydney.
Within the 12 hours to 5am on Wednesday, the NSW State Emergency Service stated it responded to 160 incidents throughout the state, together with 5 flood rescues.
Blacktown and Penrith in Sydney’s western suburbs have been the busiest areas, with 70 incidents reported.
Extra rain is forecast for components of NSW and Queensland on Wednesday.
– AAP
