One person killed and 220,000 homes remain without power
The deadly storms which swept across Victoria. 220 thousand homes remain without power and crews are working to try and restore electricity within the next 36 hours.
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00:00 energy market operator who said 50% of these homes have had power restored but there are
00:07 still a lot of trees down on roads, a lot of branches, a lot of trees have fallen on
00:12 power lines.
00:13 Now there are also dozens of schools affected by these power outages.
00:16 A lot of kids cannot go to school today.
00:18 The worst affected areas there are in the central and the west of the state and also
00:22 in the southeast suburbs of Melbourne.
00:24 There are also mobile telecommunication towers that have been affected and there were some
00:30 people yesterday who struggled to call 000 and when I asked about that today the commissioner
00:35 said that they are aware of that and they are working on that but that is also something
00:39 to be aware of that some people are actually struggling to make calls and especially to
00:44 emergency services.
00:46 Now in terms of when this power is going to be back on for those hundreds of thousands
00:50 of people that are waiting, the Premier says that they are working really hard to clear
00:55 the roads.
00:56 There is significant damage statewide caused by those storms and much of it is localised
01:02 damage which is why your power may be out and I think if you can look out the window
01:07 or walk out the front door and see that trees are down across roads, trains are down and
01:12 impacting on power lines, that's probably why the power is out and why the teams are
01:17 out there undertaking the rapid assessments to get the power reconnected.
01:21 The Australian Energy Market Operator, AOEMA, said that in the next 36 hours they are expecting
01:27 a lot more power to come back on but this is something that could take days if not weeks
01:32 until all this power has been restored to these homes and in the meantime the Premier
01:37 says they'll work on getting generators and also support to those people who need it.
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