Wild weather plunges airport into darkness, rips roofs off houses and drags trees onto train tracks after storms lashed WA and Victoria
- Wild weather wreaked havoc in Victoria with around 200 calls for SES help
- About 35,000 people in Perth were left without power after massive outage
- Peth Airport was also plunged into darkness with numerous flights cancelled
- Airport confirmed it affected terminal lights, info boards, check-in and flights
Australia has been lashed by wild weather with 130km/h winds ripping roofs off houses and triggering commuter chaos as trees were ripped down onto the tracks.
Western Australia and Victoria received the worst of the weather with Perth Airport plunged into darkness on Tuesday night after suffering a power outage, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded and forced to use their phone lights to navigate out of the terminal.
At one point there were some 35,000 people without power in Western Australia but that number dropped to around 10,000 on Wednesday morning after technicians worked through the night to fix downed power lines.
In WA, destructive winds wreaked havoc with tress knocked down and fences blown over. At one point there were some 35,000 people without power in WA but that number is understood to have dropped to around 10,000

Perth Airport was plunged into darkness (pictured) on Tuesday with dozens of international and domestic flights cancelled and people left stranded in darkness. Power to the airport was eventually restored shortly after midnight
Destructive winds wreaked havoc with tress knocked down and fences blown over.
Emergency crews across the state responded to more than 300 call-outs on Tuesday as several homes in Port Kendi and Joondalup suffered extensive damage.
In Victoria overnight, there were around 200 calls for help across the state with SES crews working non-stop.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said the worst of the Victorian weather system was now over.
However, another weather system will kick in on Wednesday night, starting in the west of Victoria before sweeping towards the east.
Western Australia is also looking at another dangerous system, expected to pick up around 11am on Wednesday (local time) and last for about three hours.
The wild weather meant another chaotic day for Aussie travellers as Perth Airport was forced to cancel dozens of international and domestic flights over the power outage.
Electricity to the airport was eventually restored shortly after midnight.

In Victoria overnight there were around 200 calls for help across the state with SES crews working non stop
The outage impacted lighting in the terminal and left baggage carousels unable to operate with frustrated passengers left literally in the dark.
Flight information boards were blank and dozens of flights grounded on the tarmac, delayed or cancelled.
Footage posted online shows the terminal plunged into darkness with arriving passengers relying on phone lights to track their luggage being manually brought into the terminal due to the bag carousels not working.
‘Sitting in the dark cold boarding gate at Perth Airport while starving. An international airport without sufficient back up power,’ one woman tweeted.

Emergency crews across the state responded to more than 300 call-outs on Tuesday as several homes in Port Kendi and in Joondalup north of Perth suffered extensive damage
Other photos show the arrival and departure flight board blank with no information available.
‘Massive crowd in airport. Departure gate closed and no communication. Been here for three hours,’ one traveler told Daily Mail Australia.
A concerned relative tweeted: ‘My 80 year old mother is on QF943 from Brisbane. It’s in the air but no idea if it can land.’
Sydney is also predicted to be slammed with wet weather across the next four days.
The state is likely to experience significant rainfall and damaging winds in the coming days, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
BOM’s head of long-range forecasting Dr Andrew Watkins said above average rainfall is expected across most of the country in the next three months.
‘With wet soils, high rivers and full dams, and the outlook for above average rainfall, elevated flood risk remains for eastern Australia’, he said.
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