Regional communities are beginning their recovery efforts after powerful storms lashed most of Victoria on Tuesday.
* About 16 houses in the South Gippsland community of Mirboo North are inhabitable
* About 33,000 homes and businesses remain disconnected from the electricity network as at 11.30am Friday
* 300 active requests for emergency assistance across the state
* 80 of those requests situated in Mirboo North
* Relief centre set up in Mirboo North to provide information, electricity generators and satellite internet for residents
* Power outage payments for homes and businesses that spend more than seven days without power are worth $1920 per week for households and $2927 for businesses
* Waste levy waived for ratepayers in 21 local government areas
* Storms resulted in one of the biggest power outages in Victoria's history, with 530,000 properties off the grid at one point
* About 15,000 simultaneous calls made to triple zero as the storm descended across the state on Tuesday
* Busiest day on record for Victoria Police call takers
* Ranked as the fourth busiest day for SES emergency assistance call takers with 5000 requests at its peak
* SES largest event was in June 2021 with just over 10,000 requests for assistance followed by 9800 requests for help in October of the same year
* Collapsed transmission lines caused Loy Yang A coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley to shut down, but widespread outages were said to be caused by local transmission damage
* Energy Safe Victoria investigating factors that contributed to the collapse of six transmission towers, including provider AusNet's compliance with safety obligations
