well it's been a wild night across much of Southeastern Australia and there's no sign of conditions letting up this morning as a cold front continues to move across the country bringing with it destructive winds and heavy rainfall victorians are being told to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel as storms sweep across the state in fact the winds are so strong they've been likened to a category 2 Cyclone Tasmania is also bearing the brunt of the weather with evacuation orders along the durent and scks rivers and it follows a chaotic week weend with hundreds of calls to the sces and tens of thousands without power it's a fast moving situation this morning and we'll have full coverage for you starting with Selena Ross who's at an evacuation Center in the dant Valley and mea Adams in Melbourne good morning to you both Selena to you first how things developed overnight there in Tasmania well this area that I'm in here in New North Folk we're outside the evacuation Center here this has been downgraded to a watch an act from an emergency last night but but further up River it is still an emergency warning with people told to evacuate from their homes we don't have a clear picture just yet of how things have gone overnight but we understand that there are about 70 homes that the sces was concerned about yesterday and they went and visited those properties and told people to evacuate and they were hopeful that most of those people had left their homes the concern there was either that the houses would be inundated or that they would be isolated as the flood waters cut off roads so you know this early in the morning we're trying to get a clear idea of what has been happening overnight it's not raining now which is good but the rivers around this area are already so swollen that the concern is that those levels are still rising and that floods could still occur uh while this area is still at a watch and act there are also plenty of other communities around Tasmania that are also at watch and act levels and there were destructive winds across the state particularly in the north and Northwest last night as well with many more trees coming down and blocking roads and there there is still a severe weather warning in place for the bastraight islands and King Island uh for bastate islands and all of the West Coast of Tasmania there are about 38,000 properties without uh power at the moment with over 200 outages right across the state so we have been dealing with this for feels like almost a week already but this is still continuing and um yeah emergency services are going to still be watching and seeing how things go throughout the day and seeing whether um any of those watch and acts do pick up even further all right ametta water conditions like in Victoria waking up this morning to lots of trees and all sorts of things across the road that wind was howling last night wasn't it yeah it sure was Bridget it was a hugely Gusty night last night victorians are waking up to the 10th consecutive day for severe wind warnings for most parts of the state now last night at St Kilda Marina they recorded winds up to 113 km an hour and up at FS Creek it actually reached 131 km an hour a new watching act to prepare for to take shelter has been added to Melbourne and surrounding suburbs as well as down in uh the Mornington Peninsula and in Wilson's prom now the SCS has also been kept extremely busy with 900 calls since midnight in the past 24 hours they've had 980 calls for trees alone and 250 for building damage and that's similar to this house here in Parkdale here in Melbourne Southeast where the bricks have fallen out from this house now they SC coo Tim wee bush has said this is one of Victoria's most extreme and significant weather events of the calendar year and that we haven't seen gusts like this since 2021 there's also been 60,000 victorians that are also waking up without power and we've been warned it could take days for that to come back on the advice Remains the Same and that is to avoid travel where possible look out for debris on roads and never to enter flood waters and we're hoping that as the day moves on that these winds start to ease from the afternoon into the early evening