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A big clean-up is underway in Ballarat in central Victoria, where a storm has brought down trees, damaged houses and caused flash flooding.
The State Emergency Service says it dealt with about 180 calls for help, mostly in the suburbs of Sebastopol and Mount Clear, when the bad weather swept through last night.
The storm brought large hailstones, strong winds and heavy rain.
SES spokesman Lachlan Quick says the calls mainly related to property damage and fallen trees.
“The damage calls were coming in at a rate of three or four a minute for probably close to an hour. We don’t very often see that sort of rate of calls coming through,” he said.
“[There are] a lot of trees down over roads, and certainly a lot of building damage to properties, with the high winds actually ripping the roof off a couple of properties in those suburbs.”
The storm also brought down trees near Avoca, causing traffic delays on the Pyrenees Highway at Elmhurst.
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