00:00The SES out again in full force after more than a week of tireless work.
00:11Volunteers flew down from New South Wales to give Warragul crews a helping hand.
00:15We've formed approximately 10 teams to come down here to Victoria and just provide that
00:19relief of our crews for a couple of days and it's always surprising that the volunteers
00:23just give so much.
00:27From their to-do list, helping Druin resident Michelle, whose caravan roof collapsed in
00:32the storms.
00:33I thought I was going to die.
00:35I thought I was going to get hit by the branch and I thought I was actually going to die
00:39and I only just missed me.
00:41Winds across the region left trees snapped and uprooted.
00:45It just looks like a tornado or something's just come straight through and taken them
00:50all down.
00:51Tens of thousands spent another day without power.
00:54Electricity cut off meant piles of food wasted.
00:58Gippsland communities were most affected by the outages.
01:01And these are often the same communities.
01:04In many cases they are the same communities that were off with the last big storm events
01:08that we had in February this year.
01:10The town of Mirbu North, having learnt from their experience, firing up the main street
01:15generator.
01:18These little townships here are the lifeblood of a community and you can really notice how
01:24lost when there's no power.
01:26At Mornington Pier, a crowd gathered as a sunken tour boat was slowly raised from the
01:31water.
01:32It's heartbreaking to be honest trying to figure out what was happening.
01:34While the seas may be calm now, yesterday a storm tide surged up this beach on the Mornington
01:40Peninsula and washed away most of the sand these beach boxes were built on, making them
01:45unstable and tricky to rebuild.
01:48This is an environmental disaster, it really is like a war zone really.
01:52Along the coast in Inverloch, locals frantically sandbagged to protect the land from erosion.
01:59We have lost metres of sand and we've lost metres of vegetation.
02:05As the clean up continues, this animal shelter in the Dandenong was kept busy.
02:09They're all so vulnerable out there.
02:11The worst has passed, but the destruction will be felt for days to come.
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