Thousands call for help as wild weather topples trees across Australian state

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Wild weather in south-east Australia has toppled trees&comma; trapping people in cars and houses and cutting power to more than 200&comma;000 properties as many braced for flooding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The extraordinary weather system that hit the state of Victoria and its capital Melbourne brought wind gusts of up to 74mph and up to eight inches of rain&comma; meteorologist Kevin Parkin said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the wind and rain eased&comma; the flood risk increased from rising rivers&period; Around 220 homes threatened by a swollen creek were ordered to evacuate at Traralgon&comma; east of Melbourne&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Australia’s second most populous state had not been lashed by such a severe wind and rain event since 2008&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Several major roads had been closed by floodwaters&comma; a landslide and fallen trees&period; Collapsed power lines also posed dangers and left more than 200&comma;000 homes across Victoria without electricity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Emergency services received more than 5&comma;000 calls for help&comma; and 3&comma;500 of those related to trees falling on houses and trapping people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A woman in her 40s was taken to hospital in a stable condition with head injuries after a tree struck her home&comma; police and the state ambulance service said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police officers walked a mile to a house in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne to reach the woman who reported a tree had struck her house and separated her from her young son&period; Emergency workers were able to clear a road so that the mother and son could be taken to paramedics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>New South Wales&comma; Australia’ most populous state on Victoria’s northern border&comma; was in the grip of a cold snap on Thursday with unusually heavy and widespread snowfalls cutting power to hundreds of homes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Several parts of the state were forecast to reach near-record low temperatures for the month of June before warmer weather on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e38be392660">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e38be392660'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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