Tens of thousands in Australia’s Tasmania state were left without power on Sunday (Sep 1) after a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rain, triggering flood warnings.
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00:00Tens of thousands in Australia's Tasmania state were left without power on Sunday after
00:07a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rain, triggering flood warnings.
00:12We have currently over 280 outages and about 30,000 customers without power.
00:20We have 26 crews in the field today working hard to try and restore those customers, but
00:28I expect that we will have customers out overnight.
00:32Again we're going to be hit tonight with more winds, I expect more outages.
00:38The nation's weather service reported that while the cold front over Tasmania, an island
00:43state with a population of around 570,000, had eased, it was expected to intensify again
00:49overnight.
00:51Emergency authorities issued warnings for potential flooding, cautioning that some areas
00:56could be isolated for several days.
00:59The state emergency service reported receiving 330 requests for assistance in the past 24
01:05hours.
01:06The SES received 323 requests for assistance over the past 24 hours, a huge effort from
01:13our volunteers that have just done a fantastic job in just really difficult conditions.
01:19We continue to work through some of those requests, we've had to triage those because
01:22of the sheer volume.
01:23Tasmania, located 445 kilometres from the mainland city of Melbourne, is accessible
01:30by a one-hour flight or a ten-hour ferry ride.
01:33About 40% of the island consists of wilderness and protected areas.