Storm cleanup continued through northern Tasmania

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The storm cleanup has continued across the north and northwest today following days of wild weather. Many Tasmanians remain without power as work continued to restore them. While the easing came just in time for one iconic event.

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00:00Mud did little to deter thousands who turned out for Wynyard's annual Tulip Festival,

00:07with a break in wild weather coming just in time for festival organisers.

00:12It's been a frantic 48 hours. We had to have those sobering discussions of whether we'd still proceed.

00:20Damaging winds eased today across the north and northwest, allowing the clean-up and repairs to begin.

00:27Tas Networks says the number of disconnected customers is now down to around 1,500,

00:33after being as high as 21,000 yesterday.

00:36We were hiding. We had no power till about 1.32 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

00:40We were really lucky. We didn't lose any power or anything.

00:43We had a few trees down at home and a few things to tidy up.

00:46Producers in the north and northwest have also been battered by winds,

00:50like this berry farm, where many of its tunnels were damaged, which could take weeks to repair.

00:56Those crops that we were hoping to get in two to three weeks, now they might be four, five, six weeks away.

01:01They'll take a bit longer to come to market because obviously the Tassie spring is quite cold

01:05and we want to keep it as warm as possible under these tunnels.

01:09The SES says it received more than 100 calls for assistance over the last three days as the wild weather hit.

01:15While the winds have eased, Tasmanians are being asked to stay vigilant, as continued rainfall causes rivers to rise.

01:22At the request of the family, no further details have been released about a pair of people

01:27who died at a private property in the northwest yesterday when they were hit by a falling tree.

01:32But on the other hand, we were getting a bit later on.

01:35So, if we are doing an Aripi at the office, now we're going to have to do someацион and an energy of a living room again.

01:39We're going to be doing a bigger or two days after a successful October season and a night.

01:40We're going to be doing a little more so we're gonna have to take care of the ceiling.

01:44So, it's going to be real so that we can charge an Aripi at the ceiling.

01:46So, that's why we're going to be doing a job of coming in today's building and being able to fix the ceiling.

01:48So, I'm just going to be doing a job of the whole area as well.

01:50So, let's go to the main thing.

01:52Let's go to the ceiling of the ceiling.

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