Hundreds of homes in southeast Australia were without power on Thursday and residents filled sandbags as an intense weather system lashed the region, bringing warnings of more heavy rain, damaging winds and flash flooding.
Victoria and the island state of Tasmania will be the worst-hit, with some areas in Victoria having already received about 140 mm (5.5 inches), more than double October's mean rainfall, over 24 hours to Thursday morning, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
"There is a lot more to come," bureau forecaster Jonathan How warned on ABC television. "(There is) significant concern right across southeastern Australia."
