SUNNY conditions and reduced wind are helping Wodonga residents and emergency crews as they clean up from Monday’s brief but fierce storm.
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Victoria State Emergency Service said more than 200 trees came down in the Wodonga area as a result of the cloudburst, with the service receiving hundreds of calls for assistance.
More than 60 SES volunteers from Wodonga, Beechworth, Chiltern, Yackandandah, Myrtleford and the regional support unit responded to building damage, trees down, roads closures and clearing trees from roads.
Country Fire Authority crews, other emergency services, VicRoads and councils also assisted.
A Victoria SES spokesman said the clean-up was well under way Tuesday morning.
“There’s only 70 jobs that crews have got to clear across the state so a lot of it’s already done, given the fine weather that we’ve got this morning across the state,” he said.
“It was just one of those freak storms that came through with that cold front that really hit Wodonga and West Wodonga pretty hard, where most of those trees have come down and they’ve since been cleared.”
