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Wild weather across Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia

Aerial view of flood waters in Benalla, Victoria Australia. Photo: Ian Currie
Wild weather sweeps across South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales with floods threatening many towns in Victoria. Most of the country areas in the northern Victoria remained submerged after flood rains. Brutal high winds in Victoria’s west coast.  Although rain eased in Victoria but many towns still remained flooded and will continue for next few more days. The emergency is far from over in Victoria. It’s the worst floods in Victoria in more than a decade with 200mm of rain fall in some areas.
Severe winds in Melbourne uprooted trees and damaged buildings. Melbourne’s suburb of St Kilda recorded Melbourne’s strongest winds with the speed of up to 104km/h on Saturday night.
In NSW motorist travelling on major roads and highways were advised to caution for high winds. RTA crews clearing fallen trees and rubbish in Princess Highway between Wollongong and Bega caused by high winds with a speed up to 120km/h. Due to heavy rainfall several land slides occurred along Snowy Mountains Highway at Talbingo and Adelong towns of NSW.
Strong wind and heavy rain hit South Australia leaving thousands of homes around the state powerless due to storm.

Children’s play ground goes underwater at Cambridge St. Creswick Victoria. Photo: Darren McNamara

Family standing and watching flood water at Carisbrook between Maryborough and Castlemaine, Victoria. Photo: Rob Leeson

Deep Creek at Lancefield rise around 2pm Saturday. Photo: Kylie McKay

Hume Highway flooded between Euroa and Violet Town. Photo: Alex Coppel