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February 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Thousands of homes and businesses were blacked out as severe winds and heavy rain lashed Melbourne on Sunday, forcing down powerlines and blocking roads with fallen trees.
On Port Phillip Bay a kite surfer was badly hurt when a gust threw him on to a beach, while elsewhere a young man was knocked out by a branch and an elderly man fell off a pergola.
Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Rod Dickson said there were gusts of between 80km/h and 90km/h in metropolitan areas.
In Frankston and at Melbourne Airport gusts reached almost 100km/h.
A State Emergency Service spokeswoman said 1200 calls for help had been received since early Sunday morning, with many coming from Nunawading, Croydon, Malvern and Croydon.
At Eastland shopping mall at Ringwood, moviegoers were given complimentary passes after the centre blacked out at the height of the storm around 2pm (AEDT).
“We’ve had a lot of trees down over private properties or over roads, causing traffic hazards,” the SES spokeswoman told AAP.
“The most severe one that we’ve had are some trees taking down powerlines in Hawthorn.”
More than 14,000 homes lost power in Melbourne’s west and northwest, while about 700 homes were blacked out around the city and in the eastern and southeastern suburbs.
The strong winds lifted the kite surfer off the water and into a heavy landing on the beach breaking both his ankles at Rosebud, on the Mornington Peninsula at 2pm.
Intensive care paramedic Andrew Burns said a gust of wind plucked the man up out of the water and blew him about 20m to shore.
He was taken to Frankston Hospital in a stable condition.
A 19-year-old man briefly lost consciousness when he was struck on the head and arm by a tree branch in Fitzroy Gardens just before 1pm.
Advanced life support paramedic Stuart North says the man was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
And in Sunshine North a 76-year-old man suffered suspected spinal injuries when he fell through a pergola roof while making repairs.
He was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition.
Two motorists had lucky escapes in separate accidents when trees fell on their vehicles, one at Deepdene, in Melbourne’s east, and the other at Hampton Park in the southeast.
Although winds have subsided the SES warns that wind gusts up to 60km/h will continue into the night.
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