Much of Tasmania woke to power outages, fallen trees and flooding on Wednesday morning after a night of strong winds and heavy rainfall.
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Severe weather warnings for damaging winds and high tides were first issued on Tuesday.
SES crews responded to nine calls for assistance in the state’s North on Tuesday night, with most cases concerning damaged roofs and outbuildings.
Wind gusts peaked at 163km/h on Maatsuyker Island, 153km/h at Scotts Peak and 135km/h at Cape Grim.
In Launceston winds reached 78km/h, with fallen trees causing numerous road closures including Lilydale Road at Rocherlea, Nile Road at Evandale and the Batman Highway at Hillwood.
More than 4200 properties statewide were without power for most of Wednesday, with TasNetworks crews working throughout the day to resolve the outages.
As of Wednesday afternoon about 1000 residents in the state’s North were still without power, while residents in Lottah were not expected to have power restored until Thursday afternoon.
Weather conditions eased throughout Wednesday, with the Bureau of Meteorology lifting a severe weather warning for damaging winds about 3pm.
A severe weather warning for high tides in the state’s North was also cancelled about 6.30pm.
BOM had warned water levels could exceed the highest standard astronomical tide of the year by up to 40 centimetres, with affected areas including Launceston, George Town and Bridport.
A City of Launceston spokesman warned the high tide could lead to another temporary closure of Henry Street, with detours possible for the West Tamar Highway near Tamar Marine.
WHO WAS HIT:
The wild weather left a mark on a number of homes and businesses in the state’s North.
Staff at Launceston’s Paintball Revolution woke on Wednesday morning to find the business's 10 acre obstacle course almost completely submerged in water.
Owner Hanna Graham described it as the “perfect storm”, with only a boundary fence and some trees preventing the course from being sent down stream.
“I had everyone calling me to see if we were OK,” she said.
“It was just completely wild.
“Between the wind, the rain and the high tide – it has all hit us at once and it was enough to push it all over the flood levy.
“It has just been insane.”
Ms Graham said it was the second time the Henry Street business had been inundated by floodwaters, following the one in 100 year floods that hit the state in June, 2016.
Meanwhile, staff at Ben Lomond Snow Sports described the terrifying moment a large part of the business's roof was ripped off.
Manager Geoff Foot said he and six other employees awoke about 4am to the sound of roaring winds.
“We could hear it all unfolding and it was quite frightening when it did finally give way,” he said.
“But we are all safe and accounted for, which is the important thing.
“We have had strong winds here before, but this was something else. Those gusts were just incredible.”
Both Ben Lomond Snow Sports and Paintball Revolution remained closed on Wednesday.
Mr Foot said until all debris was cleared from the area, it would not be safe to allow access to the park.
Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service closed the road at the Ben Lomond park boundary on Wednesday in response to the damage, as well as fallen trees.
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