00:00In Lauriton, on the state's mid-north coast, a retail and residential building is without
00:07a roof.
00:08Two tenants in their 40s and 50s, who were inside their homes at the time, made it out
00:12uninjured and are now in temporary holiday accommodation.
00:16It was the loudest bang and like we ran out and that whole roof was just sitting there.
00:24My rabbit was here so I ran out, grabbed the rabbit.
00:28Sydney has been hit by more wild weather, with persistent gale force winds bringing
00:32down power lines in some areas.
00:35We have seen wind gusts in excess of 90 to 110 kilometres an hour, particularly along
00:39those kites sites around the Sydney, Illawarra and Central Coast.
00:43Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a tree fell on top of them
00:47at Hyde Park in the CBD.
00:49Coming into peak hour, it's incredibly lucky that there weren't more people on Elizabeth
00:54Street.
00:55It's a very busy area for pedestrians and for traffic.
00:58In the Hunter, the region's peak business body is lobbying for the state government
01:02to establish a natural disaster declaration.
01:05One of its energy companies, Ausgrid, today dealing with more than 50,000 outages.
01:10We've had teams in the field 24-7 trying to restore that power and have done a large amount
01:17of that within this area.
01:19In Nelson Bay, a five-star resort has lost dozens of bookings.
01:23This is our peak season.
01:24This is where we make the bulk of our money for the year and Port Stephens is a tourism
01:29hub.
01:30The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting more thunderstorms on Saturday, which could be
01:34severe on the northern half of the coast and the SES says some homes might not have power
01:39until early next week.
01:41A wet weekend in store for many at the height of summer.
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