Tasmanians are bracing for more severe weather after being battered by strong winds and rain for the past two days.
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00:00Tasmanians have been battered with strong winds and rain over the past two days, and
00:07we've got another front crossing later today and another one tomorrow morning, so we're
00:11not out of the woods yet.
00:13There have been multiple trees coming down over roads and on power lines.
00:18Now 14,000 Tasmanian properties woke up to no power this morning.
00:23A TAS Networks spokesperson said this was unprecedented and they've never seen this
00:28many homes without power.
00:30This is now down to around 8,000 properties at the moment, but TAS Networks is warning
00:36people that there will be long delays in restoring that power.
00:40Now the SES have responded to 54 calls for assistance in the past 24 hours, and that
00:46is mostly due to flood damage and partial roofs coming off homes.
00:50There are 11 flood advice warnings across the state, and there are three flood watch
00:55and acts, and that is in the Derwent River, North Esk River, and Meander River.
01:00Now near the Meander River in Deloraine, we saw multiple properties with flood damage yesterday,
01:06and lots of flood damage is expected for later this afternoon.
01:10That is when the river levels will rise and they're expecting moderate flooding.
01:15The Bureau of Meteorology, Mick Conway, says everywhere today is either a storm force or
01:19a gale force warnings, and he's never seen anything like that before.
01:24Unfortunately, we did have snow come down here in Tasmania.
01:28There was lots of snow on the mountains, and so if the weather does light up, we can see
01:33people go skiing, possibly later today.
01:36The SES is urging Tasmanians to make sensible decisions, avoid going out into coastal waters
01:43as we do have those storm force winds, and to never drive through flood waters.