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Authorities issued evacuation notices for parts of Traralgon on Thursday morning as the Traralgon Creek burst its banks and inundated homes.
About 1.45pm, police found a man dead in Woodside near the Gippsland Lakes after they were notified that a car was submerged in flood waters.
Victoria woke to scenes of chaos after wild winds and heavy rain swept through the state overnight.
In Olinda, ambulance crews rescuing a woman and her son who had been trapped after a tree fell on their house about 11pm were themselves hampered by a falling tree, which struck a paramedic’s car and blocked the path of another crew.
Trainer to watch Mongolian Marshal from home Posted by: RS NewsWire+ at 1:51pm on 10/6/2021 Image: Bruno Cannatelli
Stuart Gower will remain in Adelaide as Mongolian Marshal struts his stuff at Sandown
Adelaide-based Stuart Gower has sent his promising middle-distance galloper Mongolian Marshal to Melbourne for a race at Sandown but is reluctant to follow suit.
Gower fears he will be forced to undergo a 14-day quarantine when he returns home if he came to Melbourne to saddle Mongolian Marshal in the Ladbrokes Bet Ticker Handicap (1800m) on Saturday.
Instead, he will entrust the Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra stable to saddle the gelding on Saturday, just as they did when the gelding won the Kyneton Cup last November.
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An evacuation order for a Latrobe Valley town inundated by floodwater has now been lifted, but more than 110,000 homes across Victoria are still without power as the clean-up from wild weather on Thursday continues.
Major flood warnings from VicEmergency are still current for the Yarra River from Millgrove to Coldstream and for the Thomson River from the Cowwarr Weir to Wandocka in the state’s east.
Six-year-old Mirrah looks at the damage after three huge trees landed on the roof of the Monbulk Aquatic Centre.
Credit:Jason South
Schools are set to re-open in metropolitan Melbourne on Friday following the easing of coronavirus restrictions. However, several primary and secondary schools, as well as kindergartens in towns such as Frankston, Healesville, Kyneton and Trentham, have been closed due to the severe weather, according to the Department of Education.
By Oliver Lees
Business owners in Sunbury and the Macedon Ranges continue to grapple with uncertainty as an extension of coronavirus restrictions sees different measures in place in metro Melboourne and regional Victoria.
Last week, a further seven days of stringent lockdown measures were announced for Sunbury residents as Victoria’s latest COVID-19 outbreak ballooned to more than 60 cases.
Located on O’shannassy Street in Sunbury, HomeGrown Gifts co-owner and mother of four Sharyn Snook has had to scale back her business hours to meet the new restrictions.
“We’re disappointed and a bit frustrated,” Ms Snook said. “You can’t argue with the need to protect people’s health, but it worries me that the mental health of small businesses doesn’t seem to be as important as the physical health of the general public.