Victorians are cleaning up the aftermath of a storm that dumped torrential rain and damaging hail across the state's south, just days before Christmas.
A business owner in the town said the storm had "pretty much destroyed everything" in his barbershopThe State Emergency Services received hundreds of calls for help, as damaging winds moved east across the state.where a burst of rain caused flooding in Melbourne Airport terminalsMore than 8,000 customers were without power for a large part of Thursday night, and communities across Gippsland were warned to be prepared for thunderstorms overnight.
In Drysdale, near Geelong, Manfred Herzer had just shut up his barber shop for the day and was driving home when the weather struck. "The hail was that heavy that I pulled into a service station, worrying that it was actually going to break the windscreen, it was quite large hailstones," he said.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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