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With numerous trees brought down on roofs and roads as a vicious storm struck the Northern Rivers on Tuesday night, emergency services combined their efforts to assist the community.
As strong winds whipped numerous trees onto homes and highways, nearly 1000 lightning strikes illuminated the pelting rain and some areas lost power, volunteers from the State Emergency Service and Rural Fire Service attended dozens of call for assistance.
Lismore City SES Acting Unit Commander, Lacy Loloa, said as of 10am on Wednesday March 10, they had received almost 40 requests for help.
âWe had 37 jobs last night, the first one came in at 5.59pm for a tree down,â she said.
Storms lash NSW North Coast, bringing down trees and stopping the XPT
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Fire and Rescue teams at the scene where a train hit a fallen tree near Grafton.
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Severe storms have left a trail of damage, felling trees from the Clarence Valley to the Queensland border and causing a 200-litre diesel spill from a damaged XPT train.
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An XPT train hit storm debris, which ruptured its fuel tank, spilling 200L of diesel
A woman was trapped in her car for more than two hours when a tree fell on it at Lawrence
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Update, 12.50pm: Tuesday night s wild weather won t be the last of it for this week, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. BOM says we can expect thunderstorms every day for at least the next four days. Storms are forecast to hit the Northern Rivers on Wednesday, with more on the horizon for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A broad area of low pressure extends over the north of the state, with a surface trough expected to develop during the day in the west, the BOM website states. This pattern is drawing humid air down from the tropics, which is generating unsettled conditions in many districts.
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Humble, wise, and generous Tony set his mind on re-wilding what once would have been a flooded melaleuca wetland. The initial brief for the Seapeace wetland project, which back in 2016 was a low-lying cattle pasture, was to create habitat for the black-necked stork. Surface water was retained on site to drown pasture grasses and a diversity of wetland flora were reintroduced.
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