About 3am Saturday workers at Wings Wildlife Park were called in to help remove caravans from the camping ground as heavy rains caused the area to flood.
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Manager Gena Cantwell, who grew up in the area, remembered her father getting similar phones call when she was little.
She said they had asked people to move in preparation for the rains on Friday afternoon, but some had stuck around thinking they would be OK.
"We had to pull them out," Mrs Cantwell said.
"None of them washed away."
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Access to the wildlife park, at Gunns Plains in the North-West, was blocked off by the floods on Saturday morning.
But luckily two members of the crew were staying on site and were able to take care of the animals until access was restored.
"We are getting pretty good at dealing with the floods," Mrs Cantwell said.
"All the animals are fine."
The park is in the process of deciding whether they will open on Saturday, but Mrs Cantwell said they would definitely be ready by Sunday.
Moderate to high rainfalls battered most of the state on Friday night as a low pressure system moved over the North and North-West.
Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Michael Conway said the North-West and Western Tiers received most of the rainfall with several locations getting more than 100 millimetres.
As of 10.30am Saturday Mr Conway said the low pressure system was slipping down the West Coast and moving towards the South.
"The rain band is moving with it, but we are still going to get some showers and possible thunderstorms today," he said.
Several places across the North-West received their highest rainfall since 2016 last night - including Wynyard (99.8mm), Devonport (67.4mm) and Liawenee (75.2mm).
The severe weather event prompter 79 calls for assistance to the State Emergency Services across Tasmania.
Most of those calls came from the North-West at 54, with the remaining calls coming from the North with 9 and 13 in the South.
The SES is working with BOM and other emergency services organisations to monitor river flows and levels across the state.
SES acting assistant director of operations and resources Nick Connolly said the high volume of calls from the North-West showed that the community was not prepared for the rain.
He said about 100 volunteers across the state put in about 600 hours of work to manage the numerous calls.
"We had water inundation purely from the rainfall which then created some flash flooding for us. We had crews out sandbagging in different spots, some roof damage in some areas and we also had higher winds on the East Coast which caused a few callouts there," Mr Connolly said.
"We had around 100 jobs in the Devonport, Wynyard area with around 100 mm of rain falling in Wynyard itself.
"[Damage] ranged from water coming in under doors [and] through windows, also we still had some jobs with overflowing gutters allowing water to come into the houses."
Jackson Worthington
General news reporter with a special interest in social justice, the economy and family violence. Jackson.Worthington@austcommunitymedia.com.au
General news reporter with a special interest in social justice, the economy and family violence. Jackson.Worthington@austcommunitymedia.com.au
