By Brendan Rees
Narre Warren SES crews were called out to five incidents, mainly of fallen trees, during a weekend of wild weather.
A dramatic picture showed crews attending the scene of an uprooted tree which had blocked Dee Way Road in Narre Warren South for about an hour at 9am on Saturday 9 May.
“I’m guessing all the rain we’ve had lately just loosened the soil and heavy winds have blown this one over,” SES duty officer Bryce Wickham said.
“We worked with council contractors to safely remove the tree from the road.”
By the afternoon crews responded to a fallen tree blocking a footpath on Outlook Drive in Berwick as well as calls of suspected flooding in Warneet and Blind Bight which turned out to be non-threatening.
On Sunday, a fallen tree caused a traffic hazard on King Road, Harkaway about 4pm while a branch fell onto a power line in Devon Meadows, which was safely managed by a power company.
No injuries were reported at any incident.
Melbournians woke up to grey clouds on Saturday with small pockets of sunshine before strong winds and rain ripped through the southeast.
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Michael Conway said the region was hit with about five to 10 millimetres of rain – with wind gusts reaching up to 60km/h by 2pm on Saturday.
“A moderately strong cold front went through,” he said, adding the widespread rain and colder air was nothing “out of the ordinary” for this time of year.
