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Residents were told to gather their pets, mobile phones and medications and head to a relief centre set up at an indoor sports centre in Sale to bunker down with friends and family outside the flood zone.
Several Victorian communities have been urged to move to higher ground after major flooding alerts were issued across the Alpine and Gippsland regions, with the window to evacuate now closed.
Homes are flooding in eastern Victoria on Thursday morning as urgent evacuations were ordered a day after the region faced bushfire threats.
Tinamba, Tinamba West and Newry have an active evacuation warning.
Victoria's Gippsland region has endured a wild week of extreme weather, with massive bushfires being swiftly followed by torrential rain that has caused flooding around many properties.